The conciliation board in Criminal Procedure Law

The conciliation board, finding its roots in the philosophy of restorative justice, and whose first applications we found out in 1970?s in Canada and the USA is a board which is based on the principle of provision of the social cohesion and social solidarity by establishing positive relationships between parties except for punishment threat and so by compensating of the damage of the victim or the one who is damaged by the crime and repairing suspect?s or offender?s fault by making them realizing the injustice which they have given rise to and also their rehabilitation as a different application from classical criminal justice system. The conciliation board, which we consider as a complementary and supporting element not an alternative of classical criminal justice system, entered into our legislation with TCK no: 5237 and CMK no: 5271 on 01/O6/2005. In this thesis, in which I have aimed to make contributions to understanding of the conciliation board, which we consider as an important development in criminal procedure law by society and legislation officers and to implementation of it easily, successfully, we have tried to make some suggestions by mentioning legal regulations which we consider as beneficial when they are made together with current problems as well.