Düstur

Set of laws

The Ottoman Code of Public Laws, also known as the Düstur or Destur or Doustour, was a set of laws in the Ottoman Empire. The name in Ottoman Turkish comes from a Persian word for a law collection, "Destur". It includes the penal code as well as some civil and commercial laws. The Persian and Turkish use of the word influenced also influenced the Arabic word Doustour which is the literal translation of Constitution.

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