Özet:

The most effective way of achieving the goal of criminal procedure for revealing the truth is to provide reliable evidence based on the right to a fair trial. In this regard, the witness testimony is one of the most important evidence. Expressing the case by deliberately changing the truth or hiding it on purpose, apart from humanitarian reasons like not being able to remember or speaking on the assumption, constitutes the crime of perjury, popularly referred to as “false testimony”. There may be aggravated cases of this crime, while some other cases that require a reduction in the punishment of the perpetrator or even personal impunity. Feeling remorse after the crime also brings up effective remorse provisions for the purpose of preventing or minimizing the harm caused to justice by perjury. Moreover, despite the view arguing that effective remorse provisions should only apply to testimonies which are in favor considering letter of Law, the view that effective repentance provisions should apply to all those who feel remorse due to their perjury, regardless whether it is against or not, which we also defend, has been tried to be addressed in this article together with the evaluations in judicial decisions.

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