The joint project between Bahçeşehir and Harvard University started delivering its first results. Enver Yucel, the chairman of Bahçeşehir University’s Board of Trustees spoke during the ceremony in Harvard: “Law is the most essential ingredient for a society in harmony and for a better democracy. The level we have reached is not yet satisfactory; we want to have in Turkey what a judicial system is meant to be. Bahçeşehir and Harvard Universities are conducting together a comparative study on some applications of law. We are making our best efforts to have a better constitution in our country. Therefore, the work on creating a constitution that brings together the views and ideas of every group under a common denominator continue at full speed.” Besides Turkish and American politicians, the ceremony was attended by Harvard University administrators, Harvard University Law School faculty, Turkish Consulate in the United States, Bahçeşehir University Rector Prof. Dr. Şenay Yalçın, Prof.Dr. Feridun Yenisey and Bahçeşehir Law School Dean Prof. Dr. Ayse Nuhoğlu.
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Bahçeşehir and Harvard Universities are carrying out joint projects in various areas. There are joint research, student exchange and visiting faculty arrangements between the law schools of the two universities. The research carried on the subjects of “provisions of criminal law which set out the relationship between the public prosecutor and the police” and “how the rights granted to the victims of crime are applied in practice” is only one of these joint projects. As a part of this initiative, Prof. Dr. Feridun Yenisey gave conferences on Turkish Criminal Law in Harvard University. Similarly, Prof. Phil Heyman from Harvard University attended lectures in Bahçeşehir. The first results from the joint work between Harvard and Bahçeşehir started to emerge. The finding report from the study that was carried out in the cities of Istanbul, New York, Boston and Los Angeles, on the provisions of criminal law that set out the relationship between the public prosecutor and the police, was presented with a ceremony in Harvard University. The opening speech was delivered by Dr. Christopher Stone, Harvard University Criminal Law Professor. Stone noted the importance of this study and thanked Prof. Dr. Feridun Yenisey of Bahçeşehir University Law School, one of the world’s most prominent names in criminal law. He added that Harvard would further develop its working ties with Bahçeşehir. Enver Yucel, the Chairman of Bahçeşehir University Board of Trustees, touched on the issues of law and social peace during his speech. Explaining to the audience the changes taking place in Turkey and the ongoing works on creating a new constitution, he stated: “In terms of being a state of law, a democratic nation and having a better democracy, we do not believe we are at a satisfactory point. We want to go further than this. We want to have in our country the same legal system that the most developed democratic nations have.”
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