THE DEATH PENALTY IN THE OSCE AREA 3.10 TURKEY RELEVANT INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS International Instruments Ratification Status114 ICCPR R Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR S CRC R ECHR R Protocol No. 6 to the ECHR R Protocol No. 13 to the ECHR S Status: abolitionist LEGAL FRAMEWORK The death penalty was partly abolished in August 2002. The death penalty was removed from the Criminal Code for all crimes committed in peacetime, and the sentences of all persons on death row were commuted to life imprisonment. However, the Constitution continued to provide for the death penalty for crimes committed in time of war or imminent threat of war; the death penalty was envisaged for 34 crimes if committed in time of war or imminent threat of war.115 The death penalty has since been fully abolished by a package of constitutional and legislative amendments. Constitutional amendments of 7 May 2004 114 115 R = ratified, S = signed, a dash (–) indicates that the participating State has neither signed nor ratified the relevant instrument. Article 38 of the Constitution of the Republic of Turkey 1982, as amended by Law No. 4709, 17 October 2001. Articles 125, 126, 129, 131, 133, 136, 137, and 149 of the Criminal Code and Articles 54, 55, 56, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 69, 70, 75, 79, 80, 89, 91, 94, 97, 101, 102, 126, 127, 136, 159, and 160 of the Military Criminal Code, No. 1632, 22 May 1930. 36