Cybercrimes in the Turkish Criminal Code

It is possible to say that the technological developments of our age make the information systems effective, cheap and easily accessible crime devices. The facilitating features of these systems have attracted the attention of terrorist organizations and they have benefited from their information systems in many activities. In this scope, the aim of the investigation is to examine the studies done in the developed countries and the European Union about information crimes in terms of criminal law, to evaluate the scope and adequacy of the regulations in the Turkish Criminal Code numbered 5237 and to make suggestions about the deficiencies and problems of Turkish criminal law in cyber terrorism. In the first part of the study; the definition, characteristics, goal and destruction of cyber terror as a definition of information crime, historical development, general characteristics of information crime perpetrator and victims, information processing methods of crime and information as a special view of crime. In the second part, the legal regulations and measures taken by developed countries such as USA, Germany, France, UK, Japan, China and Russia to combat information crimes and the provisions of " Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime " which is the only international document that regulates these crimes are examined. The Turkish Criminal Code numbered 5237 emphasized the regulations related to information crimes and in the conclusion of this analysis and analysis the necessary arrangements, measures to be taken and programs to be applied in order to deal more effectively with cybercrime and cyber terrorist threats were presented.