TY - JOUR TI - RECONCILIATION BETWEEN SOVEREIGNTY RIGHTS OF STATES PARTIES AND THE JURISDICTION OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT, IN LIGHT OF HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE AB - Roma Statute was adopted on 17July 1998 to establish an internationalpermanent criminal court based on theobligation of the States to fight jointlyagainst grave inhuman acts perpetratedall over the world and changes in theclassical sovereignty perception ofthe modern States, in order to make abetter future possible. The Court beganfunctioning on 1 July 2002 following thecompletion of the procedures envisaged.Upon the establishment of InternationalCriminal Court, international law hasdefinitely begun to intervene in thecriminal law which remained to be theonly field of law that it does not intervenein before the national laws.Legal arrangements so as tominimise the intervention of ICC to thesovereignty rights of States Parties as faras possible, were laid down in terms ofincreasing the number of States Partiesto ICC Statute. Primarily, the crimes thatfall into the jurisdiction of the Courtare limited to four types as genocide,crimes against humanity, war crimesand crime of aggression. Additionally,through the adoption of the principleof complementarity, it is accepted thatICC will acquire the right of exercisingjurisdiction, exclusively in cases wherethe State does not and is unable to carryout the proceedings or unwilling to do so. AU - Karakehya, Hakan PY - 2017 JO - Law and Justice Review VL - 0 IS - 14 SN - 1309-9485 SP - 63 EP - 78 DB - TRDizin UR - http://search/yayin/detay/290102 ER -