Özet:

The practice of polygamy, which means marrying more than one woman, is called taaddüd-i zevcât in Islamic law. Polygamy was accepted and practiced in the Ottoman state. Althoughthe Ottoman Empire received many laws from Europe during the Tanzimat period, religious andsocial reservations did not dare to do so in the field of civil law, especially in family law. With theMecelle prepared by Ahmet Cevdet Pasha, a civil law arrangement was made. However, the issueof family law was missing in the mecelle. There were many legal gaps in matters of age, number, divorce, and marriage. In order to meet this need, a regulation was brought for the first timein 1917 with the Family Law Decree. With the related decree, while the regulation regarding theage of marriage was made, the authority to give permission to the first spouse for the secondmarriage was brought in the issue of polygamy. But the decree did not last long. Even thougharrangements were made in the field of civil law with the commissions established after the opening of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, the desired modern legal rules could not be established and old laws were tried to be amended. The founding staff of the Republic of Turkey wasaware that modern European Law could not be achieved with the amendments made. Therefore,with a decision taken, the Swiss Civil Code was accepted. In the study, besides giving discussionsabout polygamy in the newspapers and magazines of the period, the perspective of the newlyestablished Turkish state on this issue was included both in the government programs and in theTurkish Grand National Assembly.

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