Abstract:

T he pecuniary liability of public servants has been a long-lasting issue for scholarly and jurisprudential disputes in Turkey since 1960’s. Disputes broadly concentrated on topics suchlike; the analysis of the personality of the fault committed by public officials, the judicial remedies to apply in case of damages related to the acts of public personnel and designation of the defendant, recourse to the public personnel by the State for pecuniary damages and obligatory character of this remedy and constitutionality of some articles of the statutes governing the legal regime of financial liability of public officials. In this work, these topics will be referred to and examined with regard to the recent status of Turkish legislation, jurisprudence and legal doctrine in order to offer an insight to the legal regime governing the pecuniary liability of public officials in Turkey

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