Uluslararası Suçlar ve Tarih

Yazarlar: Deniz AKÇAY

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Sevres,Genocide,International Court of Justice,DolusSpecialis,Effective Control

Özet: The prepatory meetings of the Treaty of Sèvres that took placein 1920, in which the representatives of the Ottoman government werenot invited, whereas the Allied Powers were represented at the highestlevel are devoid of the parameters that would verify the claims that the1915 events constituted a genocide. On the other hand, currently, it doesnot seem legally possible to characterize the 1915 events as a genocidein the light of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) judgments thathave examined and interpreted the actus reus and mens rea componentsof the crime of genocide listed in the UN Convention on the Preventionand Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, especially in the decisionregarding Bosnia Herzegovina’s application against Serbia Montenegro,in the framework of the interpretation and application of the UNConvention and the principles, criteria and conditions applied regardingthe indicative state of the “intent” element in characterizing a genocideas a dolus specialis

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