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May 1996
Introduction
Nazire Dedeman
Founder President of Umut Foundation
It is possible for the citizens to trust the government and develop comfortably their personality only within a state of law system in which the certainty and predictability of the law is ensured. The notion of State of Law is a tool notion aimed at the existence of individuals whose rights and freedoms have been ensured; who can have legal intercourse with an apparent end and who can make the existence of their own legal entity felt and protect it in the face of the government. In the definitions of the state of law, the state of law is seen as the main objective which will be accomplished through the fact citizens are within a legal security, To make the common denominator and also the notion of state of law dominant and the fact the governments action and operations are related to legal rules is considered as an element which plays a role in the assurance of this main goal of the state of law.
The objective of Umut Önderler Foundation: To bring up our youth, who are the safeguards of the future, as individuals who help to the development of our country and who are useful to humanity by bringing in personalities and skills on the track of Atatürk; to make individuals adopt and contribute to the implementation of the rule of law; to make them prefer peaceful means in the resolution of conflicts by departing from our leader Atatürks concept of Peace at Home,Peace in the World, to teach and adopt conciliation (and to maintain and develop the peace) skills to individuals in this context.
Although emphasis is put on concepts like state of law and rule of law, it isnt clarified in peoples conscience of our country. This is due to individuals impression that the issue concerns just law makers. Whereas societies possessing citizen rights and responsibilities are calling the law and justice into being and must call them into being. I know that the whole world needs it, our country at the first place. Honored societies are societies respectful to law, protecting the humanly right of life. Honor is peaces respectability balance and developments pathfinder compass which do not deviate from right and freedom. And we all know that humans honor is synonymous to the adoption of the state of law, to the protection of the law and to its development.
Individual or organized terror is a kind of violence. Whatever the reason is, it is restricting and taking away peoples life freedoms. The right to life is the most important right which should be protected among peoples fundamental right and freedoms. In a state of law, individual or organized actions are actions which are illegal.
I would like to thank Marmara University and British Council which have organized the Symposium of Struggle Against Terror and Organized Crimes for their contribution to emphasize the necessity of discussing everything in a state of law and compromise and for their contributions to the international law. I think that the fact the right of broadcasting this symposium has been given to Umut Foundation is a positive work for our foundation which has the aim of making people contribute to the adoption and implementation of the rule of law.
The fact that all the works are assembled in a book will make it durable but also will contribute to the transmission of the works to the youth in the future and will contribute to their works. I would like to thank to those who contributed to this symposium, to all participants particularly to Marmara University Faculty of Law Professor Dr. Feridun Yenisey. Also, I would like to thank to my assistant Çağlayan Nazlıca who helped in the arrangements of the book and who did the translations, to Prosecutor Cevat Özel who examined the book according to the criminal law, to assistant professor Ahment Gökçen who reviewed the book in terms of Turkish spelling, to Hamide Zafer who contributed to its arrangement and to all the other contributors.
Law and rights are not just an institute defining the crime and determining the punishment but also a framework bringing light to development and humanely life. So its activation is possible with the entrance of notions like law and state of law into our daily life. Because it becomes concrete with the activities of the citizens who want law, justice and who make efforts toward this will. The law is not constant. It should be analyzed methodically and systematically and should be actualized according to the present conditions.
I hope this book be a usefol durable work to the persons concerned.
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