Reconciliation of Criminal Procedure Law

The Institution of Reconciliation is one of the alternative methods to traditional punishment justice system, which was founded for the matters such as solving the problems where the traditional punishment systems failed to solve, or for enabling the justice system to operate faster, or in order that the trial process comes to a conclusion in a shorter time. As a fixing justice model, Reconciliation has started implementation, in the world, beginning from the second half of the 20th century. And in our country, together with the reforms made in the punishment and the criminal law, it has been a part of our laws for the first time with the regulations 5237 (Turkish Criminal Code) and 5271 (Turkish Criminal Procedure Code) which took affect on 01.06.2005.In this study, we tried to examine the Institution of Reconciliation in two parts, which is a very new institution especially for our country. In the first part, we have roughly explicated the concept of reconciliation and its historical development through touching on its relationship with the criminal laws and similar institutions. In the second part, we have expounded the nature, the conditions, the way of implementation and the results of the Institution of Reconciliation in our criminal law legislations. And finally we have mentioned the current problems of the institution. We made some suggestions about what can be done for enabling the system to function more widely.