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- Title
WASSENAAR DÜZENLEMESİ VE TÜRKİYE BİYOGÜVENLİK MEVZUATI: UYUM SÜRECİNDE İSTİKRAR İÇİN ÖNERİLER.
- Authors
DEĞER, Filiz; AÇIKGÖZ, Ali
- Abstract
The threat of the proliferation of conventional weapons and the threat of weapons of mass destruction on international security and stability continue to increase in the 21st century. States have been building nuclear weapons faster and devoting more resources to military forces over the past decade by developing new weapons technologies with unforeseen consequences. The use of biological weapons, a subset of a larger class of weapons called weapons of mass destruction, which includes chemical, nuclear, and radiological weapons, is a serious problem and the risk of using biological agents in a bioterrorist attack is increasing. COCOM (Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls) established in 1949, which is the oldest export control regime applied in the fight against weapons of mass destruction, was the most important technology transfer control mechanism during the Cold War years. The Wassenaar Arrangement was created in 1996 because of efforts to create a successor regime. It was expected from the cooperating states to harmonize their national legislation on the export of risky materials and technologies with the Regulation rules. Turkey has become a founding member of the Wassenaar Arrangement, which was established to provide transparency in the transfer of conventional weapons and dual-use goods/ technology, to encourage states to take more responsibility, and to prevent destabilizing savings to contribute to regional and international security and stability. Although the Biosafety Law, which was adopted in Turkey in 2010, is an important step towards establishing a biosafety system, it is not enough just to have the Biosafety Law passed. Because biosecurity is closely related to biodefense, and the effectiveness and functioning of the regulations issued for defense purposes and the established public institutions should be evaluated since the institutions and legal regulations to which they are subject are different. For this reason, biosafety law and practices in Turkey should be carried out under the coordination of a single institution.
- Subjects
INTERNATIONAL security; INTERNATIONAL law; BIOSAFETY
- Publication
Ankara Barosu Dergileri, 2023, Vol 81, Issue 4, p109
- ISSN
1300-9885
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.30915/abd.1189459