The cases handled by criminal lawyers are the cases filed as a result of committing acts that are regulated as crimes in the Turkish Penal Code and special laws. In criminal cases, there is the attorney who participates in the victim – the complainant – the injured party, and the lawyer who protects the legal interests of the accused. In criminal cases, unlike civil cases, there is a Public Prosecutor at the prosecution office. In civil cases, with exceptions, the Public Prosecutor does not work.
Criminal courts; criminal court of first instance, criminal court of peace, heavy penal court, juvenile court, juvenile heavy penal court and intellectual and industrial property rights criminal courts. The court in which the case will be heard is determined by the law, according to the nature of the crime, the way it was committed, and the age or source of the perpetrator.