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Pojam i oblici međunarodne krivičnopravne pomoći s
posebnim osvrtom na prava osumnjičenih odnosno optuženih
u ekstradicionom postupku
A Notion and Forms of International Criminal Justice
Assistance with Special Emphasis on Rights of Suspects and
the Accused in an Extradition Proceeding
Prof. dr. sc. Tadija Bubalović
Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, redovni profesor
e-mail: tbubalovic@pravri.hr
Sažetak: Jedan od oblika međunarodne saradnje država u
borbi protiv kriminaliteta jest i pružanje uzajamne pravne
pomoći u krivičnim stvarima. Međunarodna krivičnopravna
pomoć podrazumijeva skup različitih radnji i mjera, koje
preduzimaju pravosudna i druga državna tijela s ciljem
ostvarenja saradnje država u vršenju krivičnog pravosuđa. Ta
saradnja odvija se na osnovu međunarodnih i domaćih
pravnih propisa. S obzirom na sve veću brojnost tih propisa,
danas se sve više govori o „pravu međunarodne krivičnopravne
pomoći“, koja postaje sve izgrađenije i prepoznatljivije pravno
područje.

Ključne riječi: međunarodna
saradnja, međunarodna
krivičnopravna pomoć, oblici
uzajamne međunarodne pomoći u
krivičnim stvarima, prava
osumnjičenih odnosno optuženih
osoba.

Osnovni međunarodni dokumenti o pružanju međunarodne
krivičnopravne pomoći su: Evropska konvencija o izručenju sa
dopunskim protokolima (1957), Evropska konvencija o
uzajamnoj pomoći u krivičnim stvarima sa dodatnim
protokolima (1959), Evropska konvencija o međunarodnoj
validnosti krivičnih presuda (1970) i Evropska konvencija o
prenosu postupaka u krivičnim predmetima (1972). Glavni
domaći pravni propis u BiH je Zakon o međunarodnoj
pravnoj pomoći u krivičnim stvarima (ZMPPKS). Uz
navedene pravne propise, važna su i osnovna načela
međunarodne krivičnopravne saradnje: identitet norme,
uzajamnost (reciprocitet), ekstradibilnost, načelo locus regit
actum i načelo ne bis in idem.

http://dx.doi.org/
10.14706/DO15212

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JEL klasifikacija: K14, K33

Historija članka
Dostavljen: 01.10.2014.
Recenziran: 19.11.2014.
Prihvaćen: 12.01.2014.

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Prema ZMPPKS, međunarodna pravna pomoć odvija se u
četiri osnovna oblika: a) „mala“ međunarodna
krivičnopravna pomoć (u užem smislu), b) izručenje
(ekstradicija) osumnjičenih, optuženih i osuđenih osoba, c)
ustupanje i preuzimanje krivičnog gonjenja i d) priznanje i
izvršenje stranih sudskih odluka. Najznačajniji i najsloženiji
oblik međunarodne krivičnopravne pomoći je izručenje
(ekstradicija). Postupak izručenja je detaljno normiran i u
domaćem (ZMPPKS) i u međunarodnom pravu (bilateralni i
multilateralni ugovori).
Važan aspekt ove saradnje su i prava osumnjičenih odnosno
optuženih osoba, prije svega u ekstradicionom postupku, u
koja spadaju: pravo na obavijest o tome zbog čega se i na
osnovu kojih dokaza traži njihovo izručenje, pravo na
branitelja, pravo prisustva radnjama u postupku izručenja,
pravo na pravedno i humano postupanje, pravo na žalbu
protiv odluka o izručenju, te neka druga prava. Ta prava
trebaju biti jamstvo zakonitog, pravičnog i humanog
postupanja domaćih i međunarodnih pravosudnih i drugih
tijela u svim oblicima pružanja međunarodne krivičnopravne
pomoći, posebno onim u kojima se ograničavaju ili
privremeno oduzimaju osnovna ljudska prava i slobode.
Bosna i Hercegovina je prihvatila sve relevantne
međunarodne konvencije u tom području. Pored toga,
navedenim domaćim zakonom je na adekvatan način uredila
sva bitna pitanja međunarodne krivičnopravne pomoći u
skladu sa međunarodnim standardima.

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�Pojam i oblici međunarodne krivičnopravne pomoći s posebnim osvrtom na prava
osumnjičenih odnosno optuženih u ekstradicionom postupku
Abstract: One of the forms of international cooperation among
States in fighting against criminality is to provide for mutual legal
assistance in criminal matters. International criminal justice
assistance includes a set of different actions and measures
undertaken by judicial and other state bodies in order to achieve
the cooperation among States to exercise criminal justice system.
This cooperation takes place on the basis of international and
national legislation. Due to the increasing number of these
regulations, the phrase “Law on International Criminal Justice
Assistance” could be increasingly used today which is therefore
becoming completely formed and recognizable legal field.
Fundamental international documents on providing for
international criminal justice assistance are: the European
Convention on Extradition with additional protocols (1957), the
European Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters
with additional protocols (1959), the European Convention on
the International Validity of Criminal Judgments (1970) and the
European Convention on the Transfer of Proceedings in Criminal
Matters (1972). The main domestic legal act in Bosnia and
Herzegovina is the Act on International Legal Assistance in
Criminal Matters (ZMPPKS). In addition to these already
mentioned legal acts, basic principles of international criminal
justice cooperation are also very significant: identity of norm,
reciprocity, ability of extradition, the principle locus regit actum
and the principle ne bis in idem.

Keywords: international
cooperation, international
criminal justice assistance, forms of
international mutual assistance in
criminal matters, the rights of
suspects and accused persons.
JEL Classification: K14, K33
http://dx.doi.org/
10.14706/DO15212
Article History
Submitted: 01.10.2014.
Resubmited: 19.11.2014.
Accepted: 12.01.2014.

According to ZMPPKS, international legal assistance is divided
into four fundamental forms: (a) “small” international criminal
justice assistance (in the narrow sense), (b) extradition of suspects,
the accused and convicted persons, (c) transfer and over the case in
criminal proceedings, and (d) the recognition and enforcement of
foreign judicial decisions. The most important and the most
complex form of international criminal justice assistance is
extradition. Extradition procedure is normatively regulated in
detail in national (ZMPPKS) as well as in international law
(bilateral and multilateral treaties).

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An important aspect of this cooperation are the rights of suspects
and accused persons, primarily in extradition procedure which
include: the right to information about why and on what evidence
the extradition is requested, the right to counsel, the right to be
present during actions in the process of extradition, the right to
fair and humane treatment, the right to appeal against decisions
on extradition, and some other rights. These rights should be a
guarantee of legal, fair, and humane treatment of domestic and
international judicial and other authorities in all aspects of
providing international criminal legal assistance, particularly in
those that restrict or temporarily deprive someone of basic human
rights and freedoms.
Bosnia and Herzegovina has accepted all relevant international
conventions in this area. In addition, the mentioned domestic act
adequately regulates all important issues of international criminal
justice assistance in accordance with international standards.

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1. Pojam i značaj međunarodne kaznenopravne pomoći
Jedan od oblika međunarodne suradnje država je i kaznenopravna suradnja
u borbi protiv kriminaliteta. Ona se odvija uzajamnim pružanjem međunarodne
pravne pomoći u kaznenim stvarima.1 Potreba za provođenjem ovog oblika
međunarodne suradnje uvjetovana je sve većom rasprostranjenosti i učestalosti
činjenja teških kaznenih djela koja prelaze državne granice. Naime, kriminalitet više
nije problem samo jedne države već je danas, u doba globalne komunkacije ljudi i
dobara, teško rješiv problem čitave međunarodne zajednice. U rješevanju
organiziranog i transnacionalnog (prekograničnog, umreženog) kriminala moraju se
uključiti, pored nacionalnih tijela kaznenog progona i suđenja, i pravosudna tijela
drugih država s ciljem pronalaženja i uhićenja počinitelja kaznenih djela, osiguranja
dokaza za kazneni postupak, poduzimanja određenih procesnih radnji na teritoriju
druge države (npr. saslušanje žrtve ili svjedoka) te pomoć prilikom izvršenja izrečenih
kaznenopravnih sankcija.
Međunarodna kaznenopravna pomoć podrazumijeva skup različitih radnji i
mjera koje poduzimaju pravosudna i druga državna tijela s ciljem ostvarenja suradnje
država u vršenju kaznenog pravosuđa.2 Međunarodna kaznenopravna suradnja može
se odrediti i kao skup pravila kojima se uređuje postupanje tijela kaznenog postupka
u poduzimanju radnji na zahtjev tijela druge države.3 Konačni cilj te suradnje je
uspješnija borba protiv prije svega organiziranog i prekograničnog kriminaliteta
odnosno ostvarivanja prava na kažnjavanje počinitelja tih kaznenih djela.4 Suradnja
država u navedenom pravcu odvija se u više pravaca, ovisno o tome što se njome želi
postići: pomaganje u provođenju kaznenog postupka, ili pomoć pri izvršenju već
izrečene kaznene sankcije, ili jedno i drugo. Ta suradnja može se sastojati i u
1

O pojmu međunarodne kaznenopravne pomoći, detaljnije v. Bubalović, T. – Pivić, N., Krivično
procesno pravo – Posebni dio, Pravni fakultet Univerziteta u Zenici, 2014., str. 247 - 250., SijerčićČolić, H., Krivično procesno pravo – knjiga II, Pravni fakultet Univerziteta u Sarajevu, 2012., str. 247.,
Simović, M. N. - Simović, V. M., Krivično procesno pravo II – Posebni dio, 2. izdanje, Istočno Sarajevo,
2011., str. 365-366, Sladoje, N., Međunarodna pravna pomoć u krivičnim stvarima, Pravo i pravda, 12/2004, Sarajevo, str. 281-286.
2
Usp. Krapac, D., Međunarodna kaznenopravna pomoć – Uvod u teoriju međunarodne kaznenopravne pomoći, Zagreb,
2006
., str. 3. i dalje, Sijerčić-Čolić, H., KPP II, 2012., str. 247., Bubalović, T. – Pivić, N., KPP II, 2014.,
str. 248.
3
Tako, Pavišić, B. – Bubalović, T., Međunarodno kazneno pravo, Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci,
Rijeka, 2013., str. 125.
4
Više o tome: Bavcon Lj. et al., Međunarodno kazensko pravo, Ljubljana, 1997., str. 138; Krapac, D.,
op. cit. u bilj. 2, str. 3., Stojanović, Z., Međunarodno kazneno pravo, Beograd, 2008., str. 199-200.

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poduzimanju pojedinih procesnih radnji s ciljem pribavljanja dokaza, zbog čega se
govori i o „procesno-dokaznom“ karakteru međunarodne kaznenopravne suradnje.5
Iz navedenog proizlazi iznimno veliko značenje ustanove međunarodne
kaznenopravne suradnje, jer se samo pružanjem međusobne institucionalne i
operativne (procesne) pomoći može uspješno boriti protiv svih oblika organiziranog i
transnacionalnog kriminaliteta.
Suradnja država u kaznenim stvarima može biti unutarnja ili međunarodna.
Unutarnja se odnosi na suradnju tijela kaznenog postupka iste države, a
međunarodna (vanjska) na suradnju pravosudnih i drugih državnih tijela između
više država. Međunarodna kaznenopravna pomoć može biti aktivna i pasivna.
Aktivnu pravnu pomoć pruža zamoljena država, a pasivna pravna pomoć je na strani
države moliteljice. Ona može biti primarna i sekundarna. Primarna pomoć slijedi
prije okončanja kaznenog postupka,6 a sekundarna u postupku izvršenja
kaznenopravne sankcije.7 Međunarodna kaznenopravna suradnja može biti
univerzalna i regionalna, a po svome obimu dvostrana i višestrana.8 Prema subjektu,
međunarodna kaznenopravna suradnja podrazumijeva suradnju: tijela kaznenog
progona, sudova te tijela izvršenja kaznenih sankcija. U pravnoj teoriji se
međunarodna kaznenopravna pomoć prije svega dijeli na onu u užem i širem smislu.
Međunarodna kaznenopravna pomoć u užem obuhvaća radnje i mjere kaznenog
postupka koje poduzimaju domaći sudovi na molbu strane države ili strani sudovi
na molbu domaće države.9 Postupak pružanja međunarodne kaznenopravne pomoći
u užem smislu ima za cilj pomaganje u vođenju stranog kaznenog postupka.10
Kaznenopravna pomoć u užem smislu se nekada označava kao „mala“
kaznenopravna pomoć.11 Kaznenopravna pomoć u širem smislu obuhvaća ostale

5

Tako, Škulić, M., Krivično procesno pravo, Pravni fakultet u Beogradu, Beograd, 2010., str. 532.
Tradicionalni oblici primarne međudržavne kaznenopravne saradnje su: „mala“ međunarodna
kaznenopravna pomoć, prijenos kaznenog postupka i izručenje radi suđenja.
7
Sekundarna međunarodna kaznenopravna suradnja obuhvaća oblike suradnje poslije završenog
postupka (post judicium): izručenje radi izvršenja kazne ili druge mjere, izvršenje strane kaznene presude
i vršenje nadzora nad uvjetno osuđenim i uvjetno otpuštenim osobama.
8
Usp. Pavišić, B. – Bubalović, T., Međunarodno kazneno pravo, Rijeka, 2013., str. 126.
9
Zlatarić, B. – Damaška, M., Rječnik kaznenog prava i postupka, Zagreb, 1966., str. 160; Simović, M.
N. - Simović, V. M., KPP II, 2011., str. 368-373.
10
Simović, M. N. - Simović, V. M., KPP II, 2011., str. 368.
11
Sijerčić-Čolić, H., KPP II, 2012., str. 251.
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osumnjičenih odnosno optuženih u ekstradicionom postupku

vidove suradnje među državama i označava se kao „velika“ kaznenopravna pomoć.12
Međunarodna suradnja država u kaznenim stvarima odvija se na osnovu
međunarodnih ugovora koji mogu biti bilateralni i multilateralni.13 U pravilu,
međunarodnim ugovorima uređuju se načelna pitanja, kao što su uvjeti za izručenje
osumnjičenih, optuženih ili osuđenih osoba te razlozi (osnove) za izvođenje
kaznenoprocesnih radnji na teritoriju druge države. Sam način i forma poduzimanja
pojedinih radnji u pravilu je uređena domaćim propisima. Pri tome treba naglasiti da
i u pitanjima međunarodne kaznenopravne pomoći međunarodno pravo uvijek ima
prednost pred unutarnjim pravom, što znači da je primjena unutarnjeg prava
supsidijarna. S obzirom na sve veću brojnost međunarodnih pravnih propisa, uz
nacionalne pravne izvore, danas se sve više govori o „pravu međunarodne
kaznenopravne pomoći“, koje postaje sve izgrađenije i prepoznatljivije pravno
područje.14
Osnovni međunarodni dokumenti o pružanju međunarodne kaznenopravne
pomoći su: Europska konvencija o izručenju sa dopunskim protokolima (1957),15
Europska konvencija o uzajamnoj pomoći u kaznenim stvarima sa dodatnim
protokolima (1959), Europska konvencija o međunarodnoj validnosti kaznenih
presuda (1970), Europska konvencija o prijenosu postupaka u kaznenim
predmetima (1972) te Europska konvencija o transferu osuđenih osoba (1983).
Većina nacionalnih zakonodavstava je ratificirala navedene ali i druge konvencije u
tom području. Osnovni unutarnji (domaći) pravni propis u BiH je Zakon o
međunarodnoj pravnoj pomoći u kaznenim stvarima (ZMPPKS).16 Na taj način BiH je
12

Škulić, M., KPP, 2010., str. 531. O drugim oblicima međunarodne kaznenopravne pomoći, v.
Bejatović, S., KPP, 2008., str. 547.
13
O tim ugovorima, detaljnije: Sijerčić-Čolić, H., Evropsko krivično pravo – regionalna pravna pravila
o kaznenom postupku, Pravo i pravda, 1/2008, Sarajevo, str. 20-26.
14
Više o tome: Satzger, H., Internationales und Europaisches Strafrecht, Baden-baden, 2005., str. 26.
Pravila o međunarodnoj kaznenopravnoj suradnji u nedavnoj prošlosti bila su najvažnije područje koje
je uređivalo međunarodno kazneno pravo. Ta je materija bila uređena nacionalnim pravilima
namijenjenih postupanju u stvarima s inozemnim obilježjem. Međunarodna suradnja danas se proširuje
i na međunarodne kaznene sudove, posebno na Međunarodni kazneni sud (MKS). Usp. Josipović, I. et
al., Stalni međunarodni kazneni sud, Zagreb, 2001., Bejatović, S., Međunarodna krivičnopravna pomoć
i Međunarodni krivični sud, Beograd, 2007.
15
Europska konvencija o izručenju zajedno s dva Dodatna protokola u BiH je objavljena u „Sl. glasniku
BiH“ - Međunarodni ugovori, broj 4/2005.
16
Zakon o međunarodnoj pravnoj pomoći u kaznenim stvarima (ZMPPKS) - Sl. Glasnik BiH, 53/09.

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u okviru svoga unutarnjeg prava kroz navedeni državni zakon na potpun način
uredila sva bitna pitanja međunarodne kaznenopravne pomoći.17

2. Načela međunarodne kaznenopravne suradnje
Najvažnija načela međunarodne kaznenopravne suradnje su: (a) identitet
norme, (b) uzajamnost (reciprocitet), (c) specijalnost, (d) ekstradibilnost, (e) načelo
locus regit actum i (f) načelo ne bis in idem.18 Ova se načela ne primjenjuju u
jednakom obimu i na isti način kod svih oblika međunarodne kaznenopravne
saradnje.
Identitet norme podrazumijeva da kazneno djelo mora biti kažnjivo u obje
države koje su subjekti suradnje, odnosno da je djelo povodom kojeg se zahtijeva
određena međunarodna pomoć, predviđeno kao kazneno djelo i u državi moliteljici i
u zamoljenoj državi (idem delictum). Ovo načelo ima posebno značenje u onim
vidovima kaznenopravne suradnje u kojima se mogu ugroziti ili povrijediti osnovna
prava i slobode pojedinca (npr. izručenje, prijenos kaznenog postupka).19
Reciprocitet (ili uzajamnost) u međunarodnom kaznenom pravu predstavlja jamstvo
jedne države drugoj da će u istim ili sličnim slučajevima postupiti jednako prema
državljaninu te druge države, što znači da se može očekivati da će država moliteljica
izvršiti sličnu zamolnicu domaćih pravosudnih tijela. Specijalnost u području
provođenja međunarodne kaznenopravne suradnje podrazumijeva vezanost
postupanja za određeno kazneno djelo i određenu osobu. To znači da zamoljena
država može postupati samo u odnosu na kazneno djelo za koje ima odobrenje
(zahtjev) države moliteljice i samo u odnosu na osobu na koju se odnosi zahtjev.
Ekstradibilnost (izručivost) u biti znači da je izručenje moguće samo za određena
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Bosna i Hercegovina je, gledano regionalno, već sklopila dvostrane (bilateralne) ugovore sa
Republikom Hrvatskom (Sporazum između Bosne i Hercegovine i Republike Hrvatske o pravnoj
pomoći u građanskim i kaznenim stvarima („Službeni glasnik BiH - Međunarodni ugovori, 11/2005) i
Republikom Srbijom (Ugovor između Bosne i Hercegovine i Republike Srbije o izmjenama i
dopunama Ugovora između Bosne i Hercegovine i Srbije i Crne Gore o međusobnom izvršavanju
sudskih odluka u kaznenim stvarima od 26. II. 2010.).
17
O tim načelima detaljnije v. Pavišić, B. – Bubalović, T., Međunarodno kazneno pravo, Rijeka, 2013.,
str. 128., Degan, V. Đ – Pavišić, B., Međunarodno kazneno pravo, Rijeka, 2005; Krapac, D.,
Međunarodna kaznenopravna pomoć, Zagreb, 2006., str. 37.
18
O tome: Škulić, M., KPP 2010., str. 533-534.
19
Više o tome: Pavišić, B. – Bubalović, T., Međunarodno kazneno pravo, Rijeka, 2013., str. 128.

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kaznena djela. Načelo locus regit actum omogućava da se međunarodna
kaznenopravna suradnja ostvaruje primjenom domaćih pravila. Za validnost radnji
pravne pomoći mjerodavno je domaće pravo. Načelo ne bis in idem znači zabranu da
se nekoj osobi ponovno sudi ili da se ona ponovno kazni za kazneno djelo za koje je
već pravomoćno osuđena ili oslobođena u skladu sa zakonom. Ova zabrana osim u
nacionalnom pravu, vrijedi i u međunarodnom pravu.20
U teoriji se kao opća načelna pravila pružanja međunarodne kaznenopravne
pomoći najčešće navode ona koja se odnose na: (a) uređivanje postupka povodom
kojeg se zahtijeva i ostvaruje pravna pomoć, (b) određivanje nadležnih tijela za
pružanje te pomoći, (c) formu i sadržaj zamolnica za pravnu pomoć, (d) pretpostavke
pružanja međunarodne kaznenopravne pomoći, (e) ostala opća pravila pružanja
međunarodne kaznenopravne pomoći (npr. ona o primjeni načela uzajamnosti,
zaštiti podataka, jeziku, troškovima postupka i dr.).21

3. Oblici međunarodne kaznenopravne pomoći
Najvažniji i najuređeniji oblici međunarodne kaznenopravne pomoći su:
„mala“ međunarodna kaznenopravna pomoć (u užem smislu); izručenje
(ekstradicija); prijenos kaznenog postupka; priznanje i izvršenje strane kaznene
presude; prijenos nadzora nad uvjetno osuđenim i uvjetno otpuštenim osobama.22 U
novijim izvorima spominje se i: privremeno oduzimanje imovine stečene kaznenim
djelom; prikupljanje i razmjena podataka te regionalni i subregionalni pravosudni
sporazumi.23

4. Zakonsko uređenje međunarodne kaznenopravne pomoći u Bosni
i Hercegovini
Međunarodna kaznenopravna pomoć u Bosni i Hercegovini uređena je
Zakonom o međunarodnoj pravnoj pomoći u kaznenim stvarima (u daljnjem tekstu:

20

V. čl. 4. Protokola 7 uz EKLJP, čl. 14. MPGPP, i čl. 20. Statuta MKS.
O tome: Škulić, M., KPP 2010., str. 533-534.
22
Prema: Pavišić, B. – Bubalović, T., Međunarodno kazneno pravo, Rijeka, 2013., str. 126.
23
Degan V. Đ. - Pavišić, B., Mađunarodno kazneno pravo, Rijeka, 2005., str. 281-286., Bassiouni, Ch.,
Introduction to Interantional criminal Law, Bruxelles, 2002., str. 426. O pojmu i vrstama međunarodne
kaznenopravne pomoći v. Simović, M. N. - Simović, V. M., KPP II, 2011., str. 368-404.
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ZMPPKS).24 Tim je zakonom uređen način i postupak pružanja međunarodne
pravne pomoći u: (a) kaznenim stvarima, ako međunarodnim ugovorom nije
drugačije određeno ili ako međunarodni ugovor ne postoji, (b) prekršajnim
postupcima pred sudovima ili upravnim tijelima u pogledu prekršaja za koje su
prema propisima u BiH predviđene zatvorske ili novčane kazne i (c) u odnosu na
međunarodne sudove i druge međunarodne organizacije čiji je član Bosna i
Hercegovina, kad je to određeno međunarodnim ugovorom (čl. 1. ZMPPKS).25

5. Područje primjene i oblici međunarodne kaznenopravne pomoći
Prema čl. 8. ZMPPKS, međunarodna pravna pomoć obuhvaća: (1) opće
vidove pravne pomoći i (2) posebne vidove pravne pomoći. Opći vidovi pravne
pomoći najčešće se određuju kao „mala“ međunarodna kaznenopravna pomoć.
Posebni vidovi pravne pomoći su izručenje (ekstradicija) osumnjičenih, okrivljenih i
osuđenih osoba; ustupanje i preuzimanje kaznenog gonjenja te priznanje i izvršenje
stranih sudskih odluka. Iz navedene zakonske odredbe proizlazi da u domaćem pravu
postoje četiri osnovna oblika pružanja međunarodne pravne pomoći u kaznenim
stvarima:
(1) „mala“ međunarodna kaznenopravna pomoć (u užem smislu),
(2) izručenje (ekstradicija) osumnjičenih, okrivljenih i osuđenih osoba,
(3) ustupanje i preuzimanje kaznenog gonjenja i
(4) priznanje i izvršenje stranih sudskih odluka.26
Za svaki od navedenih oblika međunarodne kaznenopravne pomoći detaljno su
propisana osnovna načela, uvjeti, pretpostavke i način njihova provođenja.

24

Zakona o međunarodnoj pravnoj pomoći u kaznenim stvarima (ZMPPKS), Sl. Glasnik BiH, 53/09.
Država moliteljica je država iz koje nadležno pravosudno tijelo podnosi zamolnicu. Zamoljena država
je država čijem se nadležnom pravosudnom tijelu dostavlja zamolnica. Domaće pravosudno tijelo su
sudovi i tužiteljstva koji su posebnim zakonom određeni za pružanje međunarodne pravne pomoći, kao
i sva tijela koja prema ovom zakonu mogu tražiti međunarodnu pravnu pomoć. Strana pravosudna tijela
su strani sudovi i druga tijela koji su prema pravu zamoljene države nadležni za postupanje u kaznenim i
prekršajnim stvarima.
26
U kaznenom zakonodavstvu Bosne i Hercegovine ova je materija na nižim nivoima vlasti (FBiH, RS,
BD BiH) uređena i drugim zakonskim propisima.
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6. Opća načelna pravila o međunarodnoj pravnoj pomoći prema
ZMPPKS
Zahtjev za međunarodnu pravnu pomoć podnosi se u formi zamolnice, koja
mora biti prevedena i na jezik države moliteljice. Zamolnica mora imati pisanu
formu i sadržavati sve bitne podatke kako bi se po njoj moglo postupiti. Zamolnice
domaćih pravosudnih tijela za međunarodnu pravnu pomoć, u pravilu, dostavljaju se
stranim pravosudnim tijelima posredstvom nadležnih ministarstava. Iznimno,
domaće pravosudno tijelo može zamolnicu za međunarodnu pravnu pomoć dostaviti
direktno stranom pravosudnom tijelu, kad je takav način komuniciranja predviđen
međunarodnim ugovorom. U hitnim slučajevima, kad je to predviđeno
međunarodnim ugovorom, zamolnice za međunarodnu pravnu pomoć mogu se
dostavljati i primati posredstvom Međunarodne organizacije kriminalastičke policije
(INTERPOL-a). O zamolnici stranog pravosudnog tijela odlučuje nadležno domaće
pravosudno tijelo prema domaćim propisima, osim ako zakonom ili međunarodnim
ugovorom nije drugačije određeno (čl. 4 - 6. ZMPPKS).
Zakon je posebno propisao fakultativne i obligatorne osnove za odbijanje
zamolnice stranog pravosudnog tijela. Tako, prema čl. 9. ZMPPKS nadležno
domaće pravosudno tijelo može odbiti zamolnicu (fakultativna osnova) za
međunarodnu pravnu pomoć: (a) ako bi udovoljavanje zamolnici bilo u suprotnosti s
pravnim poretkom Bosne i Hercegovine ili bi moglo nanijeti štetu njenom
suverenitetu ili sigurnosti, (b) ako se zamolnica odnosi na djelo koje se smatra
političkim kaznenim djelom ili djelom povezanim s političkim kaznenim djelom i (c)
ako se zamolnica odnosi na vojna kaznena djela. Međutim, zamolnica se neće odbiti
za kaznena djela protiv čovječnosti i drugih dobara zaštićenih međunarodnim
pravom, kao i pokušaji izvršenja ovih kaznenih djela, te saučesništvo u izvršenju ovih
kaznenih djela. Prema čl. 10. ZMPPKS, nadležno domaće pravosudno tijelo mora
odbiti zamolnicu (obligatorna osnova) za međunarodnu pravnu pomoć: (a) ako je za
isto kazneno djelo okrivljena osoba iz materijalnopravnih razloga oslobođena od
krivnje ili je protiv nje obustavljen postupak, ili ako je oslobođena od kazne, ili ako je
sankcija izvršena ili se ne može izvršiti prema pravu države u kojoj je donesena
presuda, (b) ako se protiv okrivljene osobe u Bosni i Hercegovini vodi kazneni
postupak zbog istog kaznenog djela, osim ako bi izvršenje zamolnice moglo dovesti
do odluke o puštanju okrivljene osobe na slobodu i (c) ako bi kazneno gonjenje ili
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Prema načelu uzajamnosti (reciprociteta), zamolnici za međunarodnu kaznenopravnu
pomoć pravosudnog tijela države s kojom Bosna i Hercegovina nema zaključen
ugovor o međunarodnoj pravnoj pomoći, bit će udovoljeno samo ako se na osnovu
garancija koje je dala država moliteljica može očekivati da bi ta država izvršila sličnu
zamolnicu domaćih pravosudnih tijela (čl. 12. ZMPPKS).

7. Pojedini oblici međunarodne kaznenopravne pomoći prema
ZMPPKS
7.1. „Mala“ međunarodna kaznenopravna pomoć
Zakon podvodi „malu“ međunarodnu kaznenopravnu pomoć, koja se još
naziva i kaznenopravna pomoć u užem smislu, pod „opće vidove međunarodne
pravne pomoći“. „Mala“ međunarodna kaznenopravna pomoć podrazumijeva
međunarodnim i unutarnjim pravilima uređen oblik međunarodne suradnje u
poduzimanju radnji i mjera povodom kaznenog djela na temelju molbe tijela druge
države prije, tokom i nakon kaznenog postupka.27 Ona je najčešći oblik
međunarodne suradnje država u borbi protiv kriminaliteta. Najznačajniji
međunarodni izvor „male“ međunarodne kaznenopravne pomoći je Europska
konvencija o međusobnom pružanju pravne pomoći u kaznenim stvarima (1959) 28 i
njezina dva dodatna protokola (1978, 2001). U tom području suradnje važnost
imaju i Preporuka VE (1987) 1 o europskoj međudržavnoj suradnji u kaznenim
stvarima te Preporuka (1999) 6 o poboljšanju praktične primjene europskog
sporazuma o slanju zahtjeva za pravnu pomoć. Statut Međunarodnog kaznenog
suda za bivšu Jugoslaviju (MKSJ) i Statut stalnog Međunarodnog kaznenog suda
(MKS) također sadrže načelna pravila o pružanju ovih oblika međunarodne pomoći.
Tako, prema čl. 9. st. 2. Statuta MKSJ, taj sud ima primat u vođenju kaznenih
postupaka u odnosu na nacionalne sudove, a prema čl. 18. tog Statuta države članice
dužne su pružati pomoć Tužilaštvu MKSJ u pokretanju i vođenju tih postupaka,
posebno u poduzimanju procesnih radnji na njihovom teritoriju. I čl. 29. istog
Statuta propisuje da su države dužne surađivati sa MKSJ u istragama i gonjenju
osoba optuženih za djela iz njegove nadležnosti i bez odlaganja izvršiti svaki njegov
zahtjev koji bi se odnosio na identifikaciju i pronalaženje osoba, pribavljanje dokaza,

27

Usp. Krapac, D., Međunarodna kaznenopravna pomoć, Zagreb, 2006., str. 95. i 96; Bubalović, T. –
Pivić, N., KPP II, 2014., str. 256., Pavišić, B. – Bubalović, T., Međunarodno kazneno pravo, Rijeka,
2013., str. 130; Sijerčić-Čolić, H., KPP II, 2012., str. 251.
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lišavanje slobode i pritvaranje, te njihovu predaju tom sudu.29 Prema čl. 86. Statuta
MKS (Rimski statut) države su dužne surađivati sa MKS u istragama i gonjenju
kaznenih djela iz nadležnosti tog Suda.
Prema čl. 13. ZMPPKS, „mala” međunarodna kaznenopravna pomoć
obuhvaća izvršenje pojedinih procesnih radnji, kao što su: dostavljanje poziva
osumnjičenom, optuženom, svjedoku, vještaku, osobi lišenoj slobode ili drugom
učesniku u kaznenom postupku; dostavljanje akata, pisanih materijala i drugih
predmeta koji su u vezi s kaznenim postupkom u državi moliteljici; privremeno
oduzimanje predmeta; predaja privremeno oduzetih predmeta državi moliteljici;
saslušanje optuženog, svjedoka i vještaka; uviđaj, pretres prostorija i osoba; zapljena i
kontroliranje isporuka; nadzor i telefonsko prisluškivanje; razmjena određenih
informacija i obavještenja; kao i druge radnje koje se mogu pojaviti u kaznenom
postupku koje zahtijevaju međunarodnu pravnu pomoć, a nisu u suprotnosti sa
zakonom. To su tzv. opći vidovi međunarodne pravne pomoći. Zakon poznaje i
poseban oblik pružanja te pomoći. Tako, ako je riječ o kaznenom djelu koje spada u
tzv. prekogranični kriminal, nadležno tužiteljstvo u BiH može zaključiti sporazum s
nadležnim tijelima strane države o formiranju zajedničkog istražnog tima (joint
investigation teams) radi vođenja zajedničke kaznene istrage na teritoriji jedne ili više
država ugovornica (čl. 24. ZMPPKS BiH).
Za „malu“ međunarodnu kaznenopravnu pomoć ne zahtijeva se uvijek
identitet norme, zbog same prirode ovog oblika suradnje država ali i zbog toga što se
tim radnjama pomoći u pravilu ne zahvaća u područje osnovnih ljudskih prava.
Nasuprot tome, u okviru pružanja ove vrste pomoći važi načelo locus regit actum, što
znači da procesne radnje poduzete od strane zamoljene države u skladu s njezinim
zakonima, imaju formalnopravnu važnost i u državi moliteljici.
7.2. Izručenje (ekstradicija)
Izručenje (ekstradicija)30 je najsloženiji oblik međunarodne kaznenopravne
pomoći, koja se sastoji u predaji tražene osobe stranoj državi s ciljem omogućavanja
pokretanja i vođenja kaznenog postupka ili izdržavanja kaznene sankcije.31 Postupak
29

Usp. Sijerčić-Čolić, H., KPP II, 2012., str. 253.
Izručenje treba razlikovati od protjerivanja, deportacije, otmice, lišenja slobode i fizičkog dovođenja
neke osobe iz inozemstva.
31
O tome: Bavcon, Lj. et al., Međunarodno kazensko pravo, Ljubljana, 1997., str. 151. O
pretpostavkama za izručenje v. Odluku Ustavnog suda BiH, AP 244/2005, od 9. II. 2006. i odluku
30

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izručenja32 je detaljno normiran i u domaćem i u međunarodnom pravu (bilateralni i
multilateralni ugovori).33 Izručenje se zasniva na načelu: aut judicare aut tradere (ili
sudi, ili izruči). Izručenjem se sprječava počinitelj kaznenog djela da izbjegne kazneni
postupak ili izvršenje kaznenopravne sankcije.34 Izručenje je moguće nakon
provedenog odgovarajućeg zakonskog postupka i donesene zakonite odluke.35
Najvažniji međunarodni dokument o izručenju je Europska konvencija o
izručenju (1957)36 i njezini dodatni protokoli (1975, 1978).37 Ta je Konvencija po
pravnoj snazi iznad svih dvostranih ugovora o izručenju (čl. 28. ZMPPKS), što
znači da ugovorne strane mogu međusobno zaključiti bilateralne ili multilateralne
ugovore samo ako nisu u suprotnosti s ovom Konvencijom. Time se isključuje
primjena različitih rješenja predviđenih dvostranim ugovorima ili nacionalnim
pravima.38 Posebno značenje u ekstradicionom postupku imaju Preporuka (1996) 9
o praktičnoj primjeni Europske konvencije o izručenju i Preporuka (1984) 12 o
stranim zatvorenicima.39
U procesnopravnom smislu, izručenje (ekstradicija) je formalni, zakonom
propisani postupak u kojem se na temelju zaključenog pravnog posla između dvije
države zahtijeva izručenje određene osobe drugoj državi na osnovu zakona s ciljem

ESLJP, Ph. B. Franklin vs. UK. 7729/76 od 17. XII. 1976. O identitetu norme kao bitnoj pretpostavci
izručenja, v. odluku Vrhovnog suda RH, II-8 Kr.268/01, od 16. V. 2001. O razlozima isključenja
izručenja, v. odluku Vrhovnog suda Srbije, Kž-385/77.
32
O uređenju ekstradicionog postupka u uporednom pravu, v. Vasiljević, T., Sistem krivičnog
procesnog prava, Beograd, 1981., str. 739.
33
Usp. Sijerčić-Čolić, H., KPP II, 2012., str. 262.
34
Pod izručenjem treba razumjeti i predaju predmeta kojima je kazneno djelo počinjeno (instrumenta
sceleris) i predmeta na kojima je ono počinjeno ili koji su nastali kaznenim djelom (producta sceleris). O
tome: Pavišić, B. – Bubalović, T., Međunarodno kazneno pravo, Rijeka, 2013., str. 147.
35
Usp. Škulić, M., KPP 2010., str. 536-544.
36
Eng. European Convention on Extradition - ETS 024.
37
Europska konvencija o izručenju od 13. XII. 1957. stupila je na snagu 18. IV. 1960, te dopunski
protokoli od 15. X. 1975. i 17. III. 1978. - prvi dopunski protokol je stupio na snagu 20. VIII. 1979, a
drugi 5. VI. 1983; ovi su dokumenti u BiH na snazi od 24. VII. 2005.
38
Tako, Tomašević. G., Temeljni instituti međunarodnog kaznenog procesnog prava, Zbornik radova
PF Split, 41/2004, 205.
39
O pravnim izvorima Europske unije, detaljnije v. Meškić, Z. – Samardžić, D., Pravo Evropske unije I,
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vođenja kaznenog postupka ili izvršenja izrečene kaznene sankcije.40 S tim u vezi,
izručenje može biti aktivno – na strani države koja traži izručenje (država
moliteljica), i pasivno izručenje – na strani države od koje se traži izručenje
(zamoljena država).41 Izručenje kao pravni posao među državama primarno je uređen
međunarodnim ugovorima a supsidijarno unutarnjim pravom (primjenom načela
reciprociteta).42
Osnovna načela izručenja su: (a) reciprocitet, (b) identitet norme (obostrana
kažnjivost), (c) specijalitet i (d) ekstradibilnost.43 Načelo reciprociteta znači da
zamoljena država svoju pozitivnu odluku o izručenju uvjetuje s identičnim
postupanjem i istom odlukom države moliteljice u sličnom slučaju. Načelo
identiteta norme znači da kazneno djelo povodom kojeg se traži izručenje mora biti
kažnjivo i u državi moliteljici i u zamoljenoj državi (obostrana kažnjivost). Načelo
specijaliteta znači da država moliteljica može kazneno goniti i kazniti izručenu osobu
samo za ona kaznena djela izvršena prije podnošenja zahtjeva za izručenje, a ne i za
druga kaznena djela. Načelo ekstradibilnosti znači da je izručenje moguće samo u
pogledu onih kaznenih djela koja su kao takva bila unaprijed određena
međunarodnim ugovorom ili unutarnjim pravom, što znači da ta kaznena djela
moraju biti „izručiva“ (ekstradibilna).44
U uporednom pravu, postupak izručenja uređuje se kao: (a) isključivo
sudski, (b) isključivo administrativni ili (c) mješoviti, sudsko - administrativni
postupak.45 Ekstradicioni postupak u BiH, uređen Zakonom o međunarodnoj
pravnoj pomoći u kaznenim stvarima, mješoviti je sudsko - administrativni
postupak.

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Izručenje (ekstradicija) se u teoriji još određuje kao: „poseban međunarodnopravi pravni posao“,
„poseban sudski akt“, „akt međunarodne kaznenopravne pomoći“, „akcija predaje učinioca kaznenog
djela; prema: Simović, M.N. - Simović, V.M., KPP II, 2011., str. 383-384.
41
Pavišić, B. – Bubalović, T., Međunarodno kazneno pravo, Rijeka, 2013., 148.
42
O tome: Degan, V. Đ. – Pavišić, B., Međunarodno kazneno pravo, Rijeka, 2005., str. 345. O pojmu i
vrstama ekstradicije (ugovorna i zakonska), v. Bejatović, S., KPP, 2008., str. 551; Radulović, D.,
Krivično procesno pravo, Podgorica, 2002., str. 464.
43
Više o tome: Bavcon, Lj. et al., Međunarodno kazensko pravo, Ljubljana, 1997., str. 154-155; Krapac,
D., Međunarodna kaznenopravna pomoć, Zagreb, 2006., str. 36., Konaković, S., Pojam i suština
ekstradicije, u: Ljudska prava, 3-4/2006, Sarajevo, 2006.
44
O tome: Krapac, D., Međunarodna kaznenopravna pomoć, Zagreb, 2006, str. 36; Sijerčić-Čolić, H.,
KPP II, 2012., str. 262.
45
Tako, Vasiljević, T., Sistem krivičnog procesnog prava SFRJ, Beograd, 1981., str. 437.

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Prema čl. 32. ZMPPKS, izručenje osumnjičenih, odnosno optuženih ili
osuđenih stranih državljana iz Bosne i Hercegovine u drugu državu vrši se prema
odredbama domaćeg zakona ako međunarodnim ugovorom nije drugačije određeno.
Postupak predaje osumnjičenih, odnosno optuženih osoba protiv kojih se
vodi kazneni postupak pred međunarodnim kaznenim sudovima uređuje se
posebnim zakonom. Prema čl. 33. st. 1. ZMPPKS, izručenje stranaca drugoj državi
može biti dopušteno radi: (a) kaznenog gonjenja ili (b) izvršenja pravomoćno
izrečene kazne zatvora. Izručenje je moguće samo za kaznena djela kažnjiva i prema
zakonima Bosne i Hercegovine i prema zakonima države moliteljice (načelo
identiteta norme), za koja je predviđena kazna zatvora od najmanje jedne godine.
Izručenje radi izvršenja pravomoćno izrečene kazne zatvora dopušteno je ako trajanje
izrečene kazne ili njezin preostali dio koji se treba izvršiti iznosi najmanje četiri
mjeseca. Članak 34. ZMPPKS propisuje stroge uvjete za izručenje tražene osobe
drugoj državi, posebno navodi smetnje za to izručenje koje mogu biti vezane uz:
državljanstvo počinitelja, vrstu kaznenog djela,46 vrstu postupka i vrstu odnosno
prirodu sankcije.
Postupak izručenja osumnjičenih, optuženih ili osuđenih stranaca pokreće
se po zamolbi strane države (države moliteljice) koju podnosi diplomatskim putem
ili direktno Ministarstvu pravde Bosne i Hercegovine, ako je to predviđeno
međunarodnim ugovorom. Uz molbu za izručenje podnose se potrebni dokumenti
predviđeni međunarodnim ugovorom (čl. 35. ZMPPKS). Primljenu zamolbu za
izručenje i dostavljenu dokumentaciju Ministarstvo pravde Bosne i Hercegovine
odmah prosljeđuje Tužiteljstvu Bosne i Hercegovine. Tužiteljstvo Bosne i
Hercegovine ispituje je li molba podnesena u skladu sa zakonom, pa ako utvrdi da je
uz molbu dostavljena potrebna dokumentacija, prosljeđuje je bez odgađanja Sudu
Bosne i Hercegovine na rješavanje. Sud Bosne i Hercegovine, rješavajući po molbi
strane države za izručenje, ispituje i odlučuje da li su ispunjene zakonske
pretpostavke za izručenje. Ako nadležno vijeće tog Suda nađe da nisu ispunjene
zakonske pretpostavke za izručenje, donijet će rješenje kojim se odbija molba za
izručenje. Ovo se rješenje potom dostavlja vijeću Apelacionog odjeljenja Suda Bosne
i Hercegovine, koje može, po saslušanju tužitelja Tužiteljstva Bosne i Hercegovine,
to rješenje: potvrditi, ukinuti ili preinačiti. Pravomoćno rješenje kojim se odbija
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Kaznena djela koja podliježu izručenju određuju se ili: (a) enumeracijom (nabrajanjem pojedinih
kaznena djela) ili (b) generalnom klauzulom (određivanjem općih kriterija za koja je kaznena djela
moguće izručenje).

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osumnjičenih odnosno optuženih u ekstradicionom postupku

izručenje dostavlja se stranoj državi posredstvom Ministarstva pravde Bosne i
Hercegovine. Ako vijeće Suda Bosne i Hercegovine nađe da su ispunjene zakonske
pretpostavke za izručenje stranca, utvrdit će to rješenjem. Protiv tog rješenja ima se
pravo žalbe vijeću Apelacionog odjeljenja Suda Bosne i Hercegovine, u roku od tri
dana od dana prijema rješenja. Ako vijeće Apelacionog odjeljenja Suda Bosne i
Hercegovine povodom žalbe na rješenje nađe da je žalba neosnovana i da su
ispunjene zakonske pretpostavke za izručenje stranca ili ako protiv prvostupanjskog
rješenja vijeća ne bude podnesena žalba, predmet se dostavlja ministru pravde Bosne
i Hercegovine koji odlučuje o izručenju. Konačno rješenje o izručenju donosi
ministar pravde Bosne i Hercegovine (čl. 47. ZMPPKS). Ako je vijeće Suda Bosne i
Hercegovine pravomoćnim rješenjem utvrdilo da su ispunjene pretpostavke za
izručenje stranca, ministar pravde Bosne i Hercegovine, nakon uvida u cjelokupni
ekstradicioni spis, donosi rješenje kojim se dopušta ili ne dopušta izručenje stranca.
Protiv tog rješenja ne može se izjaviti žalba. Ministar pravde Bosne i Hercegovine
može odbiti izručenje ako su u pitanju kaznena djela za koja je domaćim zakonom
predviđena kazna zatvora do tri godine ili ako je strani sud izrekao kaznu zatvora do
jedne godine. U slučaju da ministar pravde Bosne i Hercegovine odbije izručenje
osobe za koje je Sud Bosne i Hercegovine pravomoćnim rješenjem utvrdio da su
ispunjene pretpostavke za izručenje, Tužiteljstvo Bosne i Hercegovine može
pokrenuti upravni spor (čl. 46. st. 4. ZMPPKS). Rješenje ministra pravde Bosne i
Hercegovine kojim je dopušteno izručenje stranca dostavlja se državi moliteljici,
Uredu za saradnju s INTERPOLOM i Graničnoj policiji Bosne i Hercegovine.47
Prema odredbi čl. 57. ZMPPKS, ako se protiv osobe koja se nalazi u drugoj
državi vodi u Bosni i Hercegovini kazneni postupak ili ako je osobi koja se nalazi u
stranoj državi domaći sud izrekao kaznu zatvora, ministar pravde Bosne i
Hercegovine, na obrazloženi prijedlog tijela koje vodi postupak, može podnijeti
molbu za izručenje te osobe. Ako osoba čije se izručenje traži, bude izručena u Bosnu
i Hercegovinu, moći će se kazneno goniti, odnosno prema njoj će se moći izvršiti
kazna samo za kazneno djelo za koje je izručenje dopušteno, osim ako se osoba
odrekla tog prava, a država koja ju je izručila nije postavila takav uvjet.
Prava osumnjičenih, optuženih i osuđenih osoba u ekstradicionom postupku.
Svaka država, kao najviši suveren u društvu, ima pravo kažnjavanja (ius puniendi)
onih građana, domaćih ili stranih, koji krše općeprihvaćene društvene norme
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Zakon poznaje i pojednostavljeno izručenje (čl. 52. ZMPPKS) te tzv. ponovno izručenje (čl. 53.
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ponašanja. To pravo uključuje propisivanje kaznenih djela i kaznenopravnih sankcija
za te delikte, vođenje kaznenog postupka te izricanje osude i kazne krivim
počiniteljima tih kaznenih djela. Poseban oblik kaznenog postupanja je i postupak
pružanja međunarodne kaznenopravne pomoći, uređene domaćim i međunarodnim
propisima. Važan aspekt toga postupka su i prava osumnjičene, optužene ili osuđene
osobe u tom postupku. Iako su ta prava primjenjiva u svim oblicima postupanja, ona
najviše dolaze do izražaja u ekstradicionom postupku, kao najsloženijem i
najosjetljivijem postupku. U ta prava prije svih spadaju: (a) pravo na pravodobnu i
potpunu obavijest o tome zbog čega se i na osnovu kojih optužbi traži njezino
izručenje, (b) pravo na pouku o njihovim pravima, (c) pravo na davanje iskaza o
kaznenom djelu povodom kojega se traži uzručenje, (d) pravo na izabranog
branitelja, ali i branitelja po službenoj dužnosti, (e) pravo na procesnu zaštitu osoba
u postupku pružanja međunarodne pravne pomoći, (f) pravo prisustva radnjama koje
prethode izručenja, (g) pravo na zadržavanje u pritvoru najkraće moguće vrijeme,
(h) pravo na davanje suglasnosti za pojednostavljeno izručenje, (i) pravo na pravedno
i humano postupanje u tom postupku, (j) pravo na žalbu protiv odluka o izručenju,
te neka druga prava.48
7.3. Ustupanje i preuzimanje kaznenog progona
Ustupanje i preuzimanje kaznenog progona je samostalan oblik
međunarodne kaznenopravne suradnje u kojem jedna država, za kazneno djelo
počinjeno na njezinom teritoriju, prenosi kazneni postupak pod određenim
zakonskim uvjetima na drugu državu.49 Naime, u slučajevima kada stranac učini
kazneno djelo na teritoriju druge države, najčešće je racionalno i opravdano da se
kazneni postupak protiv njega vodi u državi njegova prebivališta. Taj oblik suradnje
naziva se prijenos kaznenog postupka (transfer of criminal proceedings).50 Bitna načela
ovog oblika suradnje su identitet norme, uzajamnost (reciprocitet) i pravilo ne bis in
idem. Najvažniji međunarodni dokument o ustupanju i preuzimanju kaznenog
gonjenja je Europska konvencija o prenošenju postupaka u kaznenim stvarima
48

Više o tome: Simović, M. - Blagojević, M., Međunarodno kazneno pravo , Banja Luka, 2007., Kaseze,
A., Međunarodno kazneno pravo , Beograd, 2005.
49
Degan, V. Đ. – Pavišić, B., Međunarodno kazneno pravo, Rijeka, 2005., str. 313.
50
Bassiouni, M. Ch., Introduction to Interantional criminal Law, Bruxelles, 2002., str. 171.
51
Europska konvencija o prenošenju postupaka u kaznenim stvarima od 15. V. 1972. Više o tome:
Bavcon, Lj. et al., Međunarodno kazensko pravo, Ljubljana, 1997., str. 148.
52
O tim razlikama detaljnije: Sijerčić-Čolić, H., KPP II, 2012., str. 259; Bavcon, Lj. et al.,
Međunarodno kazensko pravo, Ljubljana, 1997., str. 141.

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osumnjičenih odnosno optuženih u ekstradicionom postupku

(1972), koja predviđa ustupanje kaznenog gonjenja drugoj državi ako postoji
mogućnost kažnjavanja u obje države.51
Treba razlikovati: (a) ustupanje kaznenog progona stranoj državi i (b)
preuzimanje kaznenog progona od strane države.52
a) Ustupanje kaznenog progona stranoj državi
Prema zakonu, ustupanje kaznenog progona stranoj državi moguće je pod
sljedećim uvjetima: da je stranac počinio kazneno djelo na teritoriju BiH, da se
strana država ne protivi ustupanju kaznenog progona i suđenja, stranac se u tom
slučaju ne smije izložiti nepravednom postupku, nehumanom i ponižavajućem
postupanju ili kažnjavanju, mora se raditi o kaznenom djelu za koje je propisana
kazna zatvora do deset godina ako međunarodnim ugovorom nije drugačije
određeno ili ako ne postoji uzajamnost s tom državom, oštećeni mora dobiti jamstvo
za ostvarivanje svog imovinskopravnog zahtjeva (čl. 83. ZMPPKS). Odluku o
ustupanju kaznenog progona prije podizanja optužnice donosi tužitelj, nakon
podizanja optužnice do zakazivanja glavne rasprave sudac za prethodno saslušanje na
prijedlog tužitelja, a na raspravi sudac pojedinac, odnosno raspravno vijeće.
b) Preuzimanje kaznenog progona po zamolnici strane države
Zakon je posebno uredio preuzimanje kaznenog progona državljanina BiH
ili osobe koja ima prebivalište u BiH za kazneno djelo počinjeno u inozemstvu.53
Tako, po zamolnici pravosudnih tijela strane države nadležno pravosudno tijelo u
Bosni i Hercegovini može preuzeti kazneni progon u slučajevima predviđenim
zakonom i međunarodnim ugovorom. Zamolnica strane države za preuzimanje
kaznenog progona mora sadržavati sve elemente predviđene međunarodnim
ugovorom. Po prijemu zamolnice države moliteljice za preuzimanje kaznenog
progona, Ministarstvo pravde Bosne i Hercegovine prosljeđuje je: (a) Tužiteljstvu
Bosne i Hercegovine - za djela iz nadležnosti Suda Bosne i Hercegovine, (b)
nadležnom tužiteljstvu u entitetu, putem entitetskog ministarstva pravde - za djela iz
nadležnosti sudova u entitetima ili (c) nadležnom tužiteljstvu Brčko Distrikta Bosne
i Hercegovine, putem Pravosudne komisije Brčko Distrikta Bosne i Hercegovine - za

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Umjesto ispunjenja npr. obaveze izručenja, može poduzeti suđenje osobi protiv koje je traženo
izručenje. Usp. Krapac, D., Međunarodna kaznenopravna pomoć, Zagreb, 2006., 148., Škulić, M., KPP 2011., 164.

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djela iz nadležnosti suda u Brčko Distriktu Bosne i Hercegovine. O zamolnici strane
države za preuzimanje kaznenog progona odlučuje nadležni tužilac. O odluci kojom
je odlučeno po molbi za preuzimanje kaznenog progona obavještava se strana država,
s tim što je nadležni tužitelj dužan dati obrazloženje zbog čega nije preuzeto kazneni
progon. Po završetku postupka u Bosni i Hercegovini, tijelo koje je preuzelo kazneni
postupak dužno je putem Ministarstva pravde Bosne i Hercegovine obavijestiti
državu moliteljicu o ishodu postupka, a na njezin zahtjev dostaviti joj i pravomoćnu
sudsku odluku.
7.4. Priznanje i izvršenje strane kaznene presude
Izvršenje strane kaznene presude je oblik sekundarne međunarodne
kaznenopravne pomoći koji obuhvaća mjere kojima država izvršenja, u sporazumu s
državom izricanja presude, prema svojim propisima preuzima izvršenje kazne ili
druge izrečene sankcije. Riječ je o obliku međunarodne suradnje u postupku
finalizacije pravomoćno izrečenih kazni, prije svega kazne zatvora.54 Najvažniji
međunarodni dokumenti o ovom obliku međunarodne suradnje su Europska
konvencija o međunarodnoj važnosti kaznenih presuda (1970),55 i Europska
konvencija o transferu osuđenih osoba (1983).56
Domaći sud postupit će po zamolbi države moliteljice (države koja je izrekla
kaznu) za izvršenje sudske presude u kaznenim stvarima samo ako je to predviđeno
međunarodnim ugovorom i izvršiti pravomoćnu presudu u odnosu na kaznu ili
sankciju koju je izrekao strani sud.
To će učiniti na način da prethodno presudom izrekne sankciju prema
kaznenom zakonodavstvu Bosne i Hercegovine (čl. 62. ZMPPKS). Strana sudska
kaznena presuda može se izvršiti prema državljaninu Bosne i Hercegovine i prema
osobi koja na teritoriju Bosne i Hercegovine ima prebivalište. Iz navedene zakonske
odredbe proizlazi da će domaći sud izvršiti stranu sudsku kaznenu presudu pod
sljedeća tri bitna uvjeta: ako je to predviđeno međunarodnim ugovorom; da
povodom strane pravomoćne presude o izrečenoj sankciji domaći sud presudom
54 Više o tome: Grubač, M., Dejstvo strane krivične presude u domaćem krivičnom pravu, Zbornik
radova Pravnog fakulteta u Novom Sadu, 1/1966, 59-80.
55
Eng. European Convention on the International Validity of Criminal Judgments – ETS 071. O ovoj
Konvenciji detaljnije v. Pavišić, B., Kazneno pravo Vijeća Evrope, Zagreb, 2006., 483- 488.
56
Europska konvencija o transferu osuđenih osoba od 21. III. 1983. stupila na pravnu snagu 1. VII.
1985.

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�Pojam i oblici međunarodne krivičnopravne pomoći s posebnim osvrtom na prava
osumnjičenih odnosno optuženih u ekstradicionom postupku

izrekne sankciju prema kaznenom zakonodavstvu BiH, te da je riječ o državljaninu
BiH ili osobi koja na teritoriju BiH ima prebivalište.
Stvarna i mjesna nadležnost suda u Bosni i Hercegovini za vođenje
postupka po zamolbi za priznanje i izvršenje strane sudske kaznene presude
određuje se na isti način kao i za vođenje tog postupka u Bosni i Hercegovini.
U okviru ovog oblika međunarodne suradnje treba razlikovati: (a) postupak
priznanja strane kaznene presude i (b) postupak izvršenja izrečene kazne ili druge
sankcije.57 Preuzimanje i priznanje strane presude uključuje proces prilagođavanja
presude prema pravu države koja preuzima njezino izvršenje.58 Izvršenje strane
kaznene presude obuhvaća mjere kojima država izvršenja preuzima izvršenje kazne ili
druge mjere izrečene presudom države izricanja. Riječ je o posebno uređenom obliku
suradnje koji se sastoji u prijenosu procesa izvršenja kazne oduzimanja slobode iz
države u kojoj je kazna izrečena u državu u kojoj osuđena osoba može ili treba biti
premještena radi izdržavanja kazne.
O molbi za priznanje i izvršenje strane sudske presude odlučuje sud u vijeću
od trojice sudaca. Odluka se donosi na sjednici vijeća o kojoj se obavještavaju
tužitelj, osuđeni i branitelj. Protiv donesene presude žalbu mogu izjaviti tužitelj,
osuđeni i njegov branitelj, u roku od 30 dana od dana prijema presude. O toj žalbi
odlučuje sudsko vijeće koje je nadležno za odlučivanje po žalbi protiv presuda prema
domaćem pravu.
Pravomoćna presuda kojom se priznaje strana sudska presuda u kaznenim
stvarima dostavlja se putem Ministarstva pravde Bosne i Hercegovine državi izricanja
kazne, osuđenoj osobi, njegovom branitelju i tužitelju. Priznata strana sudska
kaznena presuda izvršit će se na isti način kao da ju je izrekao domaći sud. Ako je
preuzeto izvršenje strane sudske kaznene presude, privremeno prestaje pravo na
izvršenje te presude u državi izricanja kazne, a daljnje izvršenje provodi se po
zakonima u Bosni i Hercegovini.

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Tako, Simović, M.N. - Simović, V.M., KPP II, 2011., str. 373. Moguć je slučaj i prenošenja tekućeg
izvršenja kazne ili druge kaznenopravne mjere, pod posebnim uvjetima. O tome: Krapac, D., Međunarodna
kaznenopravna pomoć, Zagreb, 2006
., str. 131.
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Pavišić, B. – Bubalović, T., Međunarodno kazneno pravo, Rijeka, 2013., 137.

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Prema čl. 73. ZMPPKS, Ministarstvo pravde Bosne i Hercegovine će, na
molbu domaćeg tijela nadležnog za izvršenje kaznene sankcije, zatražiti da strana
država prizna i izvrši sudsku kaznenu presudu domaćeg suda: (a) ako Bosna i
Hercegovina ne može osigurati izvršenje sudske kaznene presude domaćeg suda i (b)
ako se usljed prijenosa izvršenja opravdano može očekivati bolja socijalna
rehabilitacija osuđenika.
Uz molbu stranoj državi za izvršenje kaznene presude domaćeg suda mora
biti dostavljena dokumentacija predviđena međunarodnim ugovorom. Kada strana
država preuzme izvršenje kaznene presude domaćeg suda, nadležno pravosudno tijelo
u Bosni i Hercegovini privremeno će obustaviti izvršenje danom započinjanja
izvršenja u državi izdržavanja kazne.59

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O ovom obliku međunarodne suradnje, detaljnije v. Grubač, M., Dejstvo strane krivične presude u
domaćem pravu, Zbornik radova PF u Novom Sadu, 1966., str. 163-176.

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�Pojam i oblici međunarodne krivičnopravne pomoći s posebnim osvrtom na prava
osumnjičenih odnosno optuženih u ekstradicionom postupku

8. Zaključak
Međunarodna kaznenopravna suradnja u borbi protiv kriminaliteta odvija se
uzajamnim pružanjem pravne pomoći jedne države drugoj državi u kaznenim
stvarima. Međunarodna kaznenopravna pomoć obuhvaća različite radnje i mjere s
ciljem pronalaženja i uhićenja počinitelja kaznenih djela, osiguranja dokaza za
kazneni postupak, poduzimanja određenih procesnih radnji na teritoriju druge
države te pomoć prilikom izvršenja izrečenih kaznenopravnih sankcija.
Riječ je, zapravo, o skupu pravila kojima se uređuje ta suradnja. Ta pravila
sadržana su dijelom u domaćim, a dijelom u međunarodnim aktima. Osnovni
domaći pravni akt u tom području u BiH je Zakon o međunarodnoj pravnoj pomoći
u kaznenim stvarima (ZMPPKS). Prema tom zakonu, postoje četiri osnovna oblika
pružanja međunarodne pravne pomoći u kaznenim stvarima: „mala“ međunarodna
kaznenopravna pomoć; izručenje (ekstradicija) osumnjičenih, optuženih i osuđenih
osoba; ustupanje i preuzimanje kaznenog progona; te priznanje i izvršenje stranih
sudskih odluka. Za svaki od navedenih oblika kaznenopravne pomoći detaljno su
propisana osnovna načela, uvjeti, pretpostavke i način njihova provođenja.
Važno je istaći da su ovim zakonom osumnjičenim, optuženim i osuđenim
osobama u svim oblicima postupanja, posebno u ekstradicionom postupku,
zajamčena sva zakonska prava, ali i osnovna ljudska prava, a posebno: pravo na
pravodobnu i potpunu obavijest o tome zbog čega se i na osnovu kojih optužbi traži
njihovo izručenje, pravo na pouku o njihovim pravima, pravo na izabranog
branitelja, ali i branitelja po službenoj dužnosti, pravo na zaštitu osoba u postupku
pružanja međunarodne pravne pomoći, pravo prisustva radnjama koje prethode
izručenju, pravo na zadržavanje u pritvoru najkraće moguće vrijeme, pravo na
pravedno i humano postupanje u tom postupku te pravo na žalbu protiv odluka o
izručenju.
Na osnovu navedenog može se zaključiti da je postupak međunarodne
kaznenopravne pomoći u Bosni i Hercegovini cjelovito i dobro uređen i da je u
najvećoj mjeri usklađen sa međunarodnim dokumentima i dobrom praksom drugih
evropskih država.

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A Perspective on the Foundations of Democratic Governance in American
Public Schools
M. Uğur Türkyılmaz
International Burch University,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
uturkyilmaz@ibu.edu.ba

Abstract: In this paper I will try to lay out how I define and implement the most valued
concept of our time at the school I have been working in for two years. I will analyze the
questions below that I see critical in terms of “realizing” the democratic goals in a school
environment. As the principal of a public school, what are difficulties that I face when I fight
to incorporate the principles of democracy into governing bodies of our school? Where do I
get the most challenge? What are the real benefits of having a school, which is “as democratic
as possible”? Is there a dead end where you cannot further democratize the school? More
tangibly, how do I democratically reestablish the relation between the school administration
and students? How do I organize teacher and administration relations to make sure that their
voices are heard and their votes are counted? What is the principal’s position within the
community regarding getting all parties involved in the decision-making process?

What is a Democratic School?
Dewey defines democracy as “A democracy is more than a form of a government; it is primarily a mode of
associated living, of joint communicate experience.” (Dewey, 1916) I define democracy as the practice of the
freedom that every human being has when s/he is born. Democratic education is the implementation of how we
make ways to have students internalizes the very basic life requirement to be a human. “Life is a self-renewing
process.” (Dewey, 1916) So do the democratic schools. A democratic school is a living organism that grows
everyday toward the goal of having a totally democratic world. “We have seen that a community or social group
sustains itself through continuous self-renewal, and that this renewal takes place by means of the educational
growth of the immature members of the group ” (Dewey, 1916). Those schools are the enterprises committing to
the world peace beyond our imagination. Those students will some day turn this world a place that everybody
takes the pleasure of “having a say.” If you want to talk about a democratic school, you should start with the
question of where the decisions are made at that school. Is it at the discretion of an individual? Do the
committees make it? Who is making the decision on what and how to teach? Who defines the goal of the school?

Understanding the Framework of Democratic Governance
At a democratic school, decisions should be made at where the majority wants them to be made. More clearly,
before you make a decision, you ask who should make it. Just minutes ago, a social studies teacher asked me
what she should do about the students who are suspended and their parents ask for the homework that they
missed. I asked if you think it is me who should and can answer that. She puzzled a little. I said we have to make
the policy at our staff meeting. I cannot tell you how you should proceed. There are several cases new to almost
everyone. Teachers think they should be just instructed of what to do. That feeling is one of the enemies of the
democratic thinking ability. “Effective principals value dialogue that encourages teachers to reflect on their
learning and practice. The study revealed five primary talking strategies: make suggestions, give feedback,
model, use inquiry and solicit advice/ opinions, and praise.” (Joseph, 2001) My duty is to encourage all teachers
to regard themselves as a part of decision making. My position might be just to vote at the meeting just like one
of them.
At one of the department head meetings last year, I suggested that we should set up some committees. Those
committees will function like the think tank groups of the school and advice on their mission to several entities.
One of them will be a group who would solely reflect on how democratic the school is. At first sight, this might
be regarded as an easy task. But when you start taking a look around and see how many holes there are, you just
get overwhelmed. They came with tons of suggestions and criticism varying from election systems to the

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positions of the school. They came to the conclusion that the school is not democratic at all! I am not offended
with that, though.
What I am trying to say is if democratizing our schools is just in the hands of some individuals, the process is
already doomed to fail. What those individuals should first do is to encourage the entire community to get on
board. It is critical that everybody should be accountable and feel accountable to democratize the school at the
same level. “Democratic schools need to be based on a broad definition of “WE”.” (Apple, Beane, 1995)
Students, teachers, parents, administrators, paraprofessionals and all other elements of community must be on
the same page. That is the only way to avoid looking for scapegoats. If we succeed, it is all our success. If we
fail, that is the sin of all of us.

The Role of Principals
The principal should be the advocate of democratization at every aspect of the school program. “A trained
person is one who can do the chief things…” (Dewey, 1916) Therefore, he/she should regard the
institutionalization of democracy as his primary job description. The more the school democratized the more
functional and efficient the school becomes. Here at this point the challenge might seem like to be losing the
authority to rule. Actually sharing responsibility just saves the principal in the future if anything goes wrong.
Don’t you think so?
Another difficulty is getting the staff members to believe that they are the ones who should make decisions. Most
people are used to the routine and do not want to take responsibility. “The leaders’ ability to keep and maintain
engaging personal relations with teacher, students and staff members enhanced the flow of information they
received and increased their chances of encouraging experimenters at just the right time.” (Gross, 1998) That’s
where we need the talents of the administrators. Teachers are the ones actually realizing the reasons of being in a
school. “Methods of instruction and administration need to be modified to allow and to secure direct and
continuous occupations with things.” (Dewey, 1916) Hence, it is absurd to ignore their roles in the decisionmaking policy.
However, it is even harder to draw students into the system, as they are the most neglected ones. What good is
education if we are making people out of those students who do not even have the self-confidence to raise his/her
voice? “If teachers are to succeed, they must meet students where they are…” (Hammond, 1997). What good is a
school if interaction between the all others and students is not democratic?
One of the best ways students might actualize themselves is helping out to democratize the school. They should
consider themselves right at the center of this process. “Children, if they could express themselves articulate and
sincerely, would tell a different tale…” (Dewey, 1916) When they have that freedom, they would be the ones
who would change. Curriculum, discipline policy and all the other major plans of the school governance should
be made considering their point of views. They might be able to change if some things go wrong. “Learners
often bring with them very firm expectations of how their problems should be addressed.” (Farquharson, 1995)
Therefore, at every step of the decision making process, their voices should be heard.
If you have the least idea about leadership, it is to get things done through others. If you know anything about
sorting problems out in the school, it is all about getting the community in the game, especially parents. “Our
action is socially controlled because we endeavor to refer what we are to do the same situation in which he is
acting.” (Dewey, 1916) Therefore, school and education is not and cannot be isolated from the society. Actually
what we are doing is just enforcing what is happening at home or in the street or in the society. If we have
discipline problems, that is just the extension of whatever is out there. If the students have a lack of an interest in
learning, it is safe to say they lack motivation out there. “The presence of authentic instructional leadership can
be witnessed in the everyday acts of people who take the responsibility for improving the teaching and learning
in the entire school community, and its effectiveness revealed in a variety of measures of student achievement.
(King, 2002) In essence, life out of the school is somewhat shaping up the schools. Therefore, it is the
responsibility of the principal to make sure everyone who has a touch on what is going on at the school should be
at the school, too.
Parents should not just show up at the PTAs or PACs. They have to make a habit of making themselves visible
for everything that might affect the future of their kids. “An education which should unify the disposition of the
members of society would do much to unify the society itself.” (Dewey, 1916) Having such fancy ideas about
parental involvement, I cannot forget my disappointment at the day I attended the first PAC meeting. Out of
three hundred parents, only a handful showed up. I took the issue up with the PAC president and told her how
disappointed I was. What might be turning off those parents to join at least one meeting? I wrote a letter to all
parents and did not try to hide my disappointment at all. They have to understand that without their support we
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I will take further steps to make sure they feel more pressure from me to get them more democratized and care
for their children. I provided them my direct phone line number. I have an open door policy. I asked them to take
advantage of it. I booked a hotel conference room downtown to eliminate the distance problem.
It is also clear that there are some other factors outside of the school that really have an effect on education. “In
what is termed politics, democratic social organization makes provision for this direct participation in control: in
the economic region, control remains external and autocratic.”(Dewey, 1916) I am sure most politicians would
not like that! However I do agree with Dewey on that! Politicians and all other policy makers who are not in
daily operation of the schools should also be involved in reality.

Conclusion
As a conclusion, I will go with what Dewey says almost a century ago. “But we are doubtless far from realizing
the potential efficacy of education as a constructive agency of improving society, from realizing that it represents
not only a development of children and youth, but also of the future of the society of which they will be the
constituents. ” (Dewey, 1916) We have to see that school and society are two sides of the same coin. We cannot
solve the problems of one component if one is just feeding each other. We have to develop policies that will not
just be enforced at the school but also in the society, as well. “Administrators, teachers, parents, parents and
community members work hard to make education especially valuable for students in these schools.” (Gross,
1998) “In many ways unequal access to education threatens the foundation of democratic society” (Hammond,
1997) Therefore, parents, politicians and the other agents of the society should be equally accountable. It is not
enough to fail the child and the school!

References:
Apple, M., &amp; Beane, A. J. (1995). Democratic Schools. Alexandria, Virginia: Association for Supervision and
Curriculum Development
Blasé, J., &amp; Blasé J. (2001). The teacher’s principal. National Staff Development Council (22,25).
Dewey, J. (1916). Democracy and Education. NY: The Free Press
Farquharson, A. (1995). Teaching in Practice. (1st Ed) California: Jossey Bass
Hammond, D. L. (1998). The Right to Learn (1st Ed). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
Gross, S. (1998) Staying Centered Curriculum Leadership in Turbulent Era. Virginia: ASCD
King, D. (2002). The Changing Shape of Leadership. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
(61,63).

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Mohammad Exir
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The American dramatist, Sam Shepard has now gained a reputation as one of the icons of the postmodern aesthetics,
actively engaged in American stage. In his plays, he traverses the modernist borders of logic, order and social
coherence in order to picture a fractured mythic and cultural territory, filled with disintegration, loss of identity and
bafflement. In some of his best dramatic works, he artistically portrays heroes who struggle to preserve their old self,
while being inevitably entangled within the challenging games and rules of a wholly postmodern condition.This
paper attempts to analyze the various interpretive dilemmas and tensions in Shepard’s writings which can be seen as
representing an unresolved conflict between modernist and postmodernist perspectives on such issues as
fragmentation of language, nature of subjectivity and the search for coherence and meaning in mass culture. In doing
so, attempts have been made to demonstrate how this challenging shift form modernist high arts to postmodernist
embracing commercial forms, suggested in Shepard’s discourse of popular culture, is marked by an awareness of the
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characters in the play? How are the dark possibilities of postmodern fractured discourse contrasted with the
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constituted in language and discourse? One of the key points of departure between Modernism and postmodernism
is marked by an erosion of the distinction between high art and popular culture while the ruling ideas of critical
orthodoxy and aesthetic value have fallen into disrepute. In this regard, Shepard as a writer for whom the discourse
of popular culture assumes a richness and variety and whose material is drawn from the fabrics of popular culture
serves as a perfect example of an author whose work tends to delve deeper into this rapture. This is the undertaking,
which is to be followed, alongside with the issue of subjectivity which would be tackled in the light of Fredrick
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                    <text>1st International Conference on Foreign Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics
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A Postmodern Study of Doris Lessing‘s The Golden Notebook
in the Light of Jean-Francois Lyotard ‘s Ideas
Shahram Kiaei
Faculty Member, Department of English,
Islamic Azad University, Qom Branch, Qom, Iran
shahramkiaei@yahoo.com
Ensiyehsadat Azizi
Department of English
Islamic Azad University, Arak Branch , Arak , Iran
enc1382@yahoo.com
Fatemeh Azizmohammadi
Faculty Member, Department of English,
Islamic Azad University, Arak Branch , Arak , Iran
Mina_meena_meena@yahoo.com
Abstract: It has become a virtual commonplace of contemporary criticism that
postmodern thought challenges the Enlightenment view of human reason,
especially its assumption of a stable, autonomous subject capable of directing the
forces of history. For this reason some theorists see postmodernism as pivoting
on a reformulation of anti-Enlightenment thought that surfaced during the
nineteenth-century and which remained active throughout the modernist period.
From this perspective, literary modernism's ambivalent stance toward the
integrity of the subject is in part the legacy of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud-precisely those nineteenth-century thinkers who situate much of the postmodern
project. Regarding all the previous criticisms, this study clearly assumes that
postmodernism employs quite different critical methodologies from those of
modernism. Nevertheless, as Jean-Francois Lyotard suggests, evidence of this
postmodern emphasis is latent in modernism itself, most particularly in those
highly experimental or transgressive works that challenge traditional notions of
referential language, rational order, or the autonomous subject. This study,
particularly, examines Doris Lessing‘s major work for which she was awarded
Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007, The Golden Notebook (1962), in which
postmodern elements especially Lyotard‘s exists. Ultimately, the paper hails this
most influential novel as a postmodern masterpiece.
Key Words: Enlightenment, Postmodernism, Fragmentation, Chaos

In the first two-thirds of The Golden Notebook, the theme of the crack up or breakdown is
elaborated in the novels representation of national and global politics. Soviet-inspired Communism,
European colonialism and emperialism , Britain society, and national liberation struggles in the
Third World are disintegrating, collapsing, crumbling, and fragmenting, under the pressures both
internal and external. The last third of the novel relocates the crack-up in the person,[..],of Anna
herself.
-Louise Yelin,
From the Margins of Empire: Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, Nadline Gordimer

Introduction
The Enlightenment was a Europe-wide phenomenon, in philosophy, literature, language, art, religion,
and political theory, which lasted from around 1680 until the end of the 18 thcentury. Conventionally, the
Enlightenment has been called the ―age of reason‖. For the Enlightenment thinker, truth was available and
human reason was the tool by which this knowledge had been achieved and by further application of human
reason, one day the whole truth would be available to the human mind. Traditional theory desires for a unitary
and totalizing truth. During this time philosophers believed in the world‘s own story. It is what Jean-Francois

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Lyotard , one of the leading proponents of postmodernism, denies when he urges a rejection of Enlightenment
―metanarratives‖ in favor of arguing that ―there is no such thing as the world‘s own story, and the only accounts
that we can give of the world are local human aiccounts. There are only varied and conflicting human stories
about the world‖. The credibility of grand narratives has collapsed for Lyotard . Based on the theory by Lyotard
(1984):
In contemporary society and culture-postindustrial society, postmodern culture-the question of the
legitimation of knowledge is formulated in different terms. The grand narrative has lost its credibility,
regardless of what mode of unification it uses, regardless of whether it is a speculative narrative or a
narrative of emancipation (p.37).
Postmodern philosophers say that the idea of the world‘s own story, the unified picture of reality is an
illusion. Most postmodernism‘s core characteristics are: ―a skepticism or rejection of grand narratives to explain
reality; no objective reality, but many subjective interpretations; no ―one correct‖ concept of ultimate reality; no
―one correct‖ interpretation of a text (Bressler, 2007).
Moreover, postmodernist thought rejects universals, the whole truth, unitary and totalization. This is
the fragmentation of truth. Postmodernist art, architecture and literature emphasize the lack of any unifying form
or method in art. Postmodernist art revels in the fragmentation of artistic standards (Luntley, 1995). Hence, the
postmodern literature world is the representation of chaos and fragmentation. In postmodern novels, chaos,
fragmentation, and breakdown are in both their contents and structures. Lyotard , too sees society as fragmented.
The postmodern novelists would appreciate the readers to explore fragmented society and human beings.
Postmodern novelists reject any conventional story-telling and emphasize that there are no pre-established ways
for writing. The process of story-telling is different for postmodern novelists. They are interested in discovering
new ways for writing. A liberating way of story-telling is clear for postmodern novelists. Lyotard (1984)
expresses that:
A postmodern artist or writer is in the position of a philosopher: the text he writes, the work he
produces are not in principle governed by pre-established rules ,and they cannot be judged according to
a determining judgment ,by applying familiar categories to the text or to the work. Those rules and
categories are what the work of art itself is looking for. The artist and the writer then are working
without rules in order to formulate the rules of what will have been done (p.81).
One of the outstanding examples of postmodern novels which most contain the above-mentioned is
Doris Lessing‘s The Golden Notebook .In this novel, Lessing avoids being committed to conventional storytelling ,and tends to regard unconventional and new ways for story-telling. This essay discusses Anna‘s
skepticism about the Communist Party, as illustrated primarily in the Red Notebook.
Doris Lessing, the Noble Prize winner in literature 2007, the greatest English novelist of the postwar
period, born in Persia (now Iran) to British parents in 1919. She has written a lot of plays, short stories and
novels. The Grass is singing, which appeared in 1950, is her first novel. As she has told her interviewers, it is
not her first attempt at the novel; she has destroyed the manuscripts of two earlier works. During the 50s and
60s, The Grass is singing was followed by the five volumes of her Children of Violence series: Martha Quest
(1952); A Proper Marriage (1954); A Ripple from the Storm (1958); Landlocked (1956), and The Four-Gated
City (1969). Also, she has written several other novels and a series of short stories. To Room Nineteen (1978)
and Through the Tunnel (1990) are her best-known short stories. One of her plays is Play with a Tiger: a play in
three acts. The main focus of the present essay, as mentioned before, is on Lessing‘s The Golden Notebook,
which will be closely analyzed in the following paragraphs.
Doris Lessing‘s The Golden Notebook
The Golden Notebook (1962) opens with a ―Free Women‖ section: Free Women is a conventional short
novel that is divided into five sections and separated by stages of the four Notebooks; Black ,Red, Yellow and
Blue ,and The Golden Notebook appears near the book‘s end. In these notebooks Anna keeps writing of events
in her life. The Black Notebook is a record of various aspects of Anna‘s bestselling first novel, Frontiers of war;
The Red one is about her experiences and dissatisfying with the British Communist Party; The Yellow one is
about her romantic novel called The Shadow of the Third; in this notebook she writes about Ella which is the
mirror of her life; and the Blue one is Anna‘s diary of her life.
The Golden Notebook and the Interrogation of the Communist Party
The Golden Notebook is one of the best-loved and most influential of Lessing‘s novels that invites her
readers to discover postmodern fragmented society. When Anna Wulf , the writer and the protagonist, in the
beginning of the novel says ―everything is cracking up‖, it implies that the hope of referring to unity has almost
disappeared and chaos has an opportunity to emerge. Also, Lessing mentions in the preface of The Golden
Notebook; ―its theme is breakdown and fragmentation‖. Chaos and fragmentation are in agreement with the
novel. Anna expresses that writing four notebooks instead of one notebook is just because of chaos 1. She senses
incoherent in both her life and personality. Given different colors for notebooks shows her fragmented
personality in the society. Anna‘s life in the fragmented society requires her to express that:

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The novel has become a function of the fragmented society, the fragmented consciousness. Human
beings are so divided, are becoming more and more divided, and more subdivided in themselves,
reflecting the world, that they reach out desperately, not knowing they do it, for information about
other groups inside their own country, let alone about groups in other countries (GN, p.79).
What happens to readers as they read the novel is different from each other. The postmodern writer
insists on expression without content, which means that the writer puts up a scenario which the reader is free to
interpret in whatever way he/she likes to: there is no correct interpretation (Barkholt &amp; Jepsen, 2010). The
postmodern celebration of interrogation grand narrative appears in the Red Notebook. When Anna writes about
communism in this notebook, it is to inform her opposition to communism and interrogate it. As Jackson (2009)
says:
Anna writes of having become disillusioned with the communism into her Red Notebook. Lessing‘s
novel is overtly about the splitting or disunification . The compartmentalization of experience into
different notebooks is one of the most straightforward manifestations of this theme. All manner of
historical forces, especially the Cold War, are the causes for this splitting.
Lessing, like Anna, writes about Communism (she was a member of the Communist Party in both
South Africa and Britain). Paul Schlueter (2003) notes that:
In common with many other British and American intellectuals in the1930s and early 1940s, Doris
Lessing became a Communist as a result of sincere optimistic desires to see the world improved and to
have the injustices of a supposedly inhuman competitive system of values eliminated .To a great extent,
her decision to become a Communist appears now as naive many other youthful enthusiasms or
commitments. She has said, for instance, when I became a communist, emotionally if not
organizationally, in 1942, my picture of socialism as developed in the Soviet Union was, to say the
least, inaccurate. [...] (p.36).
Through writing about the Communist Party Anna feels depressed. The rejection of being a communist
is related to Lessing, too. Doris Lessing herself, in an interview with Hermione Lee mentions that ―she has just
stopped being a communist and being on the extreme Left‖. 2It becomes clear that Lessing was not really
satisfied with joining the Communist Party.
She has said that she decided to leave the party a good time before I finally left it. I didn‘t leave it when
I decided to, because there was a general exodus, much publicized, from the British Party then, and the
journalists were waiting for yet another renegade to publish his, her complaints
against the C.P. [Communist Party]. To quote another old communist: ―I find it nauseating when
people who have been in the Party ten, twenty years, stagger out shouting and screaming as if they‘ve
been raped against their will.‖ I left it because the gap between my own attitudes and those of the party
widened all the time. There was no particular event or moment. The 20th Congress [in February, 1956,
at which Khrushchev denounced Stalin] shocked me, not because of the ―revelations‖ but because I
thought the ―revelations‖ were long overdue, pitifully and feebly
Put forth, and no one really tried to explain or understand what had happened (schlueter, 2003,
p.37).
In the Red Notebook, Anna explains she hates joining anything, which seems to her incompatible. In
lieu of being satisfied with joining the Communist Party, always she is thinking about leaving the Party.
According to Marx3, ―the aim of a Communist society is to procure genuine freedom, genuine individuality and
humanity, genuine democracy‖ (Habib, 2008, p.534). But, affirmative political beliefs of becoming a communist
in Central Africa play virtually no part here for Anna. She attacks Communism at the beginning of talking with
Molly about joining the Party:
Last week, Molly came up at midnight to say that the Party members had been circulated with a form,
asking for their history as members, and there was a section asking them to detail their 'doubts and
confusions.' Molly said she had begun to write this, expecting to write a few sentences, had found
herself writing' a whole thesis-dozens of bloody pages.' She seemed upset with herself. 'What is it I
want-a confessional? Anyway, since I've written it, I'm going to send it in. 'I told her she was mad. I
said: 'Supposing the British Communist Party ever gets into power, that document will be in the files,
and if they want evidence to hang you, they've got it-thousands of times over.' She gave me her small,
almost sours mile-the smile she uses when I say things like this. Molly is not an innocent communist.
She said: 'You're very cynical.' I said: 'You know it's the truth. Or could be .' She said: 'If you think in
that way, why are you talking of joining the Party?' I said: 'Why do you stay in it, when you think in
that way too?' [...].'It's all very odd,
Anna, isn't it?' And in the morning she said: 'I took your advice, I tore it up. (GN, pp.163-164).

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In this part, Anna criticizes the very possibility of real freedom and democracy in the Communist
Party. She expresses that the Communist Party is too dishonest upon the individual. Although the Communist
Party invites their members in the society to express their ideas and doubts freely, but it is not the truth. In fact,
they are dishonest toward people. In spite of thinking about leaving the Party, Anna is still in it. So, it is her
ambivalent aspect about the Communist Party. Anna says: ―I write very little in this notebook. Why? I see
everything I write is critical of the Party. Yet I am still in it. Molly too‖(GN,p.168). But through reading the Red
Notebook, we understand regardless of her ambivalence, most of the time she calls the Communist Party into
question. ―I see that I wrote yesterday, I would leave the Party. I wonder when, and on what issue‖ (GN, p.170).
Immediately, she describes her meeting with John . 4
Had dinner with John. We meet rarely-always on the verge of political disagreement. At the end of the
dinner, he said: 'The reason why we don't leave the Party is that we can't bear to say good-bye to our
ideals for a better world. 'Trite enough. And interesting because it implies he believes, and that I must,
only the Communist Party can better the world. Yet we neither of us believe
any such thing(GN,p.170).
It indicates that the Communist Party cannot make the world better. Also, we do well keep in mind that
fragmentation and split spread in the Communist Party. Anna confesses that the reason to join the Communist
Party is a need for wholeness, but fragmentation and split emerge in the Communist Party.
I came home thinking that somewhere at the back of my mind when I joined the Party was need for
wholeness, for an end to the split, divided, unsatisfactory way we all live. Yet joining the Party
intensified the split-not the business of belonging to an organisation whose every tenet, on paper,
anyway, contradicts the ideas of the society we live in; but something much deeper than that. Or at any
rate , more difficult to understand (GN, p.171).
Her ambivalence appears not only in the Red Notebook, but also in her speaking with Mrs.Marks5 that
is written in the Blue Notebook by Anna.
-'Why are you a communist?'
-'At least they believe in something.'
-'Why do you say they, when you are a member of the Communist Party?'
-'If I could say we, really meaning it, I wouldn't be here, would I?'
-'So you don't care, really, about your comrades?' (GN, p.237).
The ambivalence does not happen just for Anna, it is for each member of the Mashopi group.―The
representation of Anna‘s life in the Communist Party exemplifies rupture, division, and doubleness. Like Anna,
each member experiences an ambivalence that undermines her or his politics‖ (Yelin , 1998, p.79).
Schlueter (2003) notes that:
Although Anna indicates at various times her reasons for leaving the party—its jargon, its dishonesty,
its pettiness, and so on—she does specify in one passage in more detail her exact reasons for both
becoming a Communist and for leaving the party. Jack, another party member, comments that society
today is complex and technical that no one person can effectively understand it all. Anna answers him:
―Alienation .Being split. It‘s the moral side, so to speak, of the communist message. And suddenly you
shrug your shoulders and say because the mechanical basis of our lives is getting complicated, we must
be content to not even try to understand things as a whole?‖[...] He says: ―Not being split, it‘s not a
question of imaginatively understanding everything that goes on. Or trying to. It means doing one‘s
work as well as possible, and being a good person.‖ I say: ―That‘s treachery.‖ ―To what?‖ ―To
humanism .‖ He thinks and says: ―The idea of humanism will change like everything else.‖ I say:
―Then it will become something else. But humanism stands for the whole person, the whole individual,
striving to become as conscious and responsible as possible about everything in the universe. But now
you sit there, quite calmly, and as a humanist you say that due to the complexity of scientific
achievement the human being must never expect to be whole, he must always be fragmented.‖ [pp.
307–8]
Her sense of this fragmentation is such as to demand of her a more coherent, a more unifying life than
has been possible through dedication to communism. [...] (pp.39 - 40).
The failure of totalizing grand narratives of communism also emerges in the newspaper cuttings and
letters from all kinds of people that Anna describes them in the Red Notebook.
[At this point the red notebook was stuffed full of newspaper cuttings to do with the Twentieth
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political meetings, etc. This mass of paper had been fastened together by rubber bands and clipped to
the page. Then Anna's handwriting began again:]
11th August, 1956
Not for the first time in my life I realize I have spent weeks and months in frenzied political activity
and have achieved absolutely nothing. More, that I might have foreseen it would achieve nothing. The
Twentieth Congress has doubled and trebled the numbers of people, both in and out of the Party, who
want a 'new‘ communist party. Last night I was at a meeting which went on till nearly morning.
Towards the end a man who had not spoken before, a socialist from Austria, made a short humorous
speech, something like this: 'My dear Comrades. I have been listening to you, amazed at the wells of
faith in human beings! What you are saying amounts to this: that you know the leadership of the British
C. P. Consists of men and women totally corrupted by years of work in the Stalinist atmosphere. You
know they will do anything to maintain their position. You know, because you have given a hundred
examples of it here this evening that they suppress resolutions, rig ballots, pack meetings, lie and twist.
There is no way of getting them out of office by democratic means partly because they are
unscrupulous, and partly because half of the Party members are too innocent to believe their leaders are
capable of such trickery. [...] (GN, p.435).
In the fourth Red Notebook we face Olga6‘s opinions about the Communist Party.
She clasped his hand, and said: 'I will make you a promise. I promise you that when our Party
Historians have re-written the history of our Communist Party in accordance with the revisions made
necessary by the distortions imposed during the era of Comrade Stalin, I promise you that I will read it'
(GN,p.515).
It indicates that the history of the Communist Party cannot become universalized. Even the Party
historians should re-write its history and revise it. It reminds us that history can never be completed.

Conclusion
Postmodern novelists, like Lessing are interested in interpretations and pave the way for the plurality of
possible interpretations. The freedom of the postmodern writers is like the freedom of the readers. The Golden
Notebook, then, is a novel informing fragments which encourages the readers to grow discouraged with grand
narratives; the Communist Party. The most important matter that Anna, the main character, expresses over and
over again in her notebooks, specifically in the Red Notebook is the fragmentation and chaos. Also, the
acceleration of fragmentation is all over her life. The Critical moment in her dream is the fragmentation. It
shows that Anna cannot escape from fragmentation and chaos, even in her dream:
I had a dream for my last appointment. [...].I opened the box and forced them to look. But instead of a
beautiful thing, which I thought would be there, there was a mass of fragments, but bits and pieces
from everywhere, all over the world—I recognized a lump of red earth, that I knew came from Africa,
and then a bit of metal that came off a gun from Indo-China, and then everything was horrible, bits of
flesh from people killed in the Korean War and a communist party badge off someone who died in a
Soviet prison. This, looking at the mass of ugly fragments, was so painful that I couldn‘t look, and I
shut the box (GN, pp.252- 253).
She frequently mediates on the difficulty of the Communist Party and regards it inadequate. The red
Notebook is a record of a period of history; the Communist Party, but maybe the end of the Communist Party.
Most of the characters in the novel, especially Anna realize that they may be at the end of history. They
interrogate grand narratives-universal and totalizing stories that give direction to the historical process and
legitimize statements of truth. Judith KeganGardiner's valuable essay on Doris Lessing‘s The Golden Notebook
perfectly describes little of internal communist maneuvering in the novel. In an attempt to leave the Communist
Party, she often calls it into question. Gardiner (2007) says that most of the communists in the novel are
deceived. Communism in The Golden Notebook thus becomes a set of false beliefs. The readers are motivated to
discover whether Anna is interested in communism or not.

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Endnotes:
1-When Tommy asks her the reason of writing four notebooks, Anna says: ―I‘ve told you,
Chaos‖(GN,p.272) .
2-Lee, H.(2009). A Conversation With Doris Lessing. (p.23). Retrieved February 10, 2011, from
http://www.informaworld.Com/smpp/title~content=t716100725
3- The tradition of Marxist thought has provided the most powerful critique of capitalist
Institutions and ethics ever conducted. Its founder, Karl Heinrich Marx (1818-1883),was a
German Political, economic, and philosophical theorist and revolutionist (Habib , 2008,p.527).
4-John: He is a Comrade.
5-Mrs.Marxs:'Mother Sugar', is Anna‘s psychiatrist.
6- Olga: She is a Comrade.

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                    <text>3rd International Symposium on Sustainable Development, May 31 - June 01 2012, Sarajevo

A Reexamination Of Causal Nexus Between Economic Growth And Renewable Enegy
Consumption For Us: Further Evidence From Bootstrap-Corrected Causality Test
Şenay Saraç, Ertugrul Yıldırım
Bulent Ecevit University, Department of Economics, Zonguldak, Turkey.
E-mails: senaysarac@hotmail.com, yildirimertugrul@hotmail.com
Abstract
Recent debates about renewable energy consumption manifest two main expectations. Firstly,
renewable energy consumption should contribute to economic growth and secondly, it should
not cause a damage on environment. This study focuses on the first issue by applying
bootstrap-corrected causality test for the US since empirical literature criticizes the TodaYamamoto test which bases on asymptotic distribution. The models consist of real GDP,
employment, investment and kinds of renewable energy consumption. Only one causal
relationship was found from biomass-waste-drived energy consumption to real GDP. No
causal relationship was found between real GDP and all of the other renewable energy kinds –
total renewable energy consumption, geothermal energy consumption, hydro-electric energy
consumption, biomass energy consumption and biomass-wood-drived energy consumption.
That is using of energy from waste cause not only solving the dumping problems but also it
contributes to real GDP. For policy purpose, the results of this study suggest that countries
should concentrate on energy producing from waste as an alternative energy resource.
Keywords: Sustainable development, Economic growth, Renewable energy consumption, US.
JEL: O13, Q42, O51
1. INTRODUCTION
Sustainable development can be defined as: “development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. Many
factors can contribute to achieving sustainable development goal. One of the most important
factors is the sustainable supply of energy resources (Rosen, 1996; Dincer and Rosen, 1998;
Dincer, 1999). A secure supply of energy resources is a necessary condition but not sufficient
requirement for sustainable development within an economic society. Furthermore,
sustainable development needs a sustainable supply of energy resources and an effective and
efficient utilization of energy resources. In this context, renewable energy is one of the crucial
elements for sustainable development. A number of factors lead to increase attention on
renewable energy sources such as the volatility of oil prices, the dependency on foreign
energy sources, and the environmental consequences of carbon emissions and government
policies that promote renewable energy production (Bowden and Payne, 2010; Apergis and
Payne, 2010a).
Recent debates about renewable energy consumption manifest two main expectations. Firstly,
renewable energy consumption should contribute to economic growth and the secondly, it
should not cause a damage on environment. This study focuses on first issue. There are four
hypotheses about causal nexus between economic growth and energy consumption.
According to the growth hypothesis energy consumption contributes to economic growth both
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directly and/or indirectly by complementing to labor and capital in the production process.
Validity of the growth hypothesis implies that energy conservation policies could reduce real
GDP. The conservation hypothesis implies that energy conservation policies would not reduce
real GDP. Achieving unidirectional Granger-causality from real GDP to energy consumption
supports the conservation hypothesis. Interdependent causal nexus between energy
consumption and real GDP is suggested by the feedback hypothesis. It is supported by the
validity of bidirectional Granger-causality between energy consumption and real GDP.
Finally, the neutrality hypothesis proposes that energy consumption serves a relatively minor
role in the determination of real GDP while energy conservation policies would not reduce
real GDP. The absence of Granger-causality between energy consumption and real GDP
supports the neutrality hypothesis.
Ozturk (2010) reviews the literature about energy consumption-economic growth nexus.
Empirical evidence about causal nexus between energy consumption and real GDP are mixed.
Furthermore very few studies investigate the relationship between renewable energy
consumption and real GDP. Table 1 summarizes empirical literature about renewable energy
consumption-economic growth nexus.
Table 1: Literature review: Renewable energy consumption and Economic Growth
Study
Sari and
(2004)

Methodology
Soytas

Period

Subject

Relationship

Variance
decomposition

1969-1999

Turkey

REC increases GDP

Ewing et al. (2007)

Variance
decomposition

2000:12005:6

US

REC increases IP

Sari et al. (2008)

ARDL

2000:12005:6

US

IP→REC

Sadorsky (2009)

Panel Cointegration

1994-2003

18 emerging countries

GDP→REC

Apergis and Payne
(2010a)

Panel Cointegration

1985-2005

20 OECD countries

GDP↔REC

Apergis and Payne
(2010b)

Panel Cointegration

1992–2007

13 countries
Eurasia

GDP↔REC

Payne (2009)

Toda-Yamamoto

1949-2006

US

GDP≠REC

Bowden and Payne
(2010)

Toda-Yamamoto

1949-2006

US (sectoral level)

GDP↔REC

within

Note: Abbreviations are defined as follows: REC= renewable energy consumption, GDP=real gross domestic
product, IP=industrial production. EC→GDP means that the causality runs from energy consumption to growth.
GDP→EC means that the causality runs from growth to energy consumption. EC↔GDP means that bidirectional causality exists between energy consumption and growth. EC≠GDP means that no causality exists
between energy consumption and growth.

Only Payne (2009) and Bowden and Payne (2010) use Toda-Yamamoto causality test. But
Toda-Yamamoto test which bases upon lag-augmented VAR model has assumption of the
normality of the error term. Hacker and Hatemi (2006) indicate that if the error term of the
model is characterized by non-normality, asymptotic distribution can be poor approximation.
In this case findings of Toda-Yamamoto test are invalid.
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The contribution of our empirical study is threefold. First this study uses a multivariate
causality test by including employment and investment variables into the model between
renewable energy consumption and real GDP since the omission of relevant variables leads to
econometric problems. Second, this study employs bootstrap-corrected causality technique
suggested by Hacker and Hatemi (2006) to avoid unclear results due to the assumption of
normality and the third one is to pick the true lag order by combining Schwarz (1978)
Bayesian information criterion and the Hannan and Quinn (1979) information criterion as
suggested by Hatemi (2003).
The rest of the paper is organized as follows: The next section describes the data,
methodology and the results from empirical analysis are presented in third section. Section
four presents conclusion and policy implications of the paper.
2. Data
Employment, real gross fixed capital formation and real GDP variables are taken from OECD
National Accounts data that is attained from source OECD data base and time series of
renewable energy consumption variables are obtained from the US Energy Information
Administration as billion Btu. Tim span of the renewable energy consumption variables are as
follows: 1949-2010 for total renewable energy consumption, biomass energy consumption,
hydropower energy consumption and biomass-wood-drived energy consumption, 1960-2010
for geothermal energy consumption and 1970-2010 for biomass-waste-drived energy
consumption.
3. Methodology and Results
Toda-Yamamoto augmented VAR(p+d) model can be described in the following a compact
way (Hacker and Hatemi-J, 2006):

K  FZ  .

(1)
Where:
K  ( x1 ,
F  (v, A1 ,

, Ap ,

, xT )(n  T ) matrix,
, Ap d )(n  (1  n( p  d ))) matrix,

 1 
 x 
t


 xt 1 


Z t   .  ((1  n( p  d )) 1) matrix, for t=1,...,T,
 . 


 . 
x

 t  p  d 1 
matrix,

Z  (Z0 ,

, ZT 1 )((1  n( p  d ))  T ) matrix,

  (1 , , T )(n  T ) matrix,
Toda and Yamamoto (1995) introduce the following modified Wald (MWALD) test statistic
for testing the null hypothesis of non-Granger causality:

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MWALD  (Y ) Y  ( Z Z ) 1  VU  Y 

1

(Y ) ~  P2 .

(2)

Where:

The MWALD test statistic is asymptotically χ2 distributed, conditional on the assumption that
the error terms are normally distributed, with the number of degrees of freedom equal to the
number of restrictions to be tested. According to Toda and Yamamoto (1995), their function
(Eq.2) guarantees the use of asymptotical distribution theory. However, using Monte Carlo
simulations Hacker and Hatemi-J (2006) showed that the MWALD test statistic over rejects
the null hypothesis, especially if the error term is characterized by autoregressive conditional
heteroscedasticity (ARCH) and non-normality. Furthermore, Hacker and Hatemi-J urged that
the asymptotic distribution can be a poor approximation, especially for the small samples that
are common in empirical studies.
Hacker and Hatemi-J (2006) found that the bootstrapped empirical size for the modified Wald
test is close to the correct size in the different cases when the extra lags are greater than or
equal to the integration order of both variables, and it is generally closer to the correct size
than the asymptotic distribution empirical size.
To perform the bootstrap simulations, firstly regression (Eq. 1) is estimated with the null
hypothesis of no Granger causality. For each bootstrap simulation it is generated the
simulated data, K*.
K *  FˆZ   *

(3)

where F̂ is the estimated value of the parameters in Eq. (1). That is. Fˆ  KZ (ZZ )1 The
bootstrap residuals (Ψ*) are based on T random draws with
replacement from the regression’s modified residuals, each with equal probability of 1/T. The
mean of the resulting set of drawn modified residuals is subtracted from each of the modified
residuals in that set. The modified residuals are the regression’s raw residuals modified to
have constant variance, through the use of leverages. Eq.(4) defines the modified residual
through leverage adjustment for xit.

 itm 
(4)

 it
1  hit

In order to calculate the bootstrap critical values, the bootstrap simulation is run 100,000
times and calculated the MWALD test statistic each time. In this way, it is able to produce the
empirical distribution for the MWALD test statistic.
The analyses consist of three stage, In the first stage, to ensure robustness for the common
components of the variables, we use several unit root tests, including the augmented Dickey
and Fuller (1979) (ADF) test, the Phillips and Perron (1988) (PP) test, as well as the
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Kwiatkowski et al. (1992) (KPPS) test. According to our results, not represented here, the
common components of the all variables turn out to be integrated of order one, I(1).
The next step is to pick optimal lag order. Two of the most successful criteria according to the
simulation results presented in the literature are Schwarz (1978) Bayesian information
criterion (SBC) and the Hannan and Quinn (1979) information criterion (HQC). However, the
earlier studies illustrate that each of these two different criteria can perform better than the
other depending on the properties of the true VAR model. Hatemi-J Criteria (HJC), displayed
in Table 2, is employed to pick true lag order which is suggested by Hatemi-J (2003).
Table 3: Selection of Lag Length
Models
Model 1:Real GDP=Employment+Investment+Total REC

AIC

SBC
2

1

HQC
2

HJC
2

Model 2:Real GDP=Employment+Investment+Biomass Total EC

2
2
2
2
-25.2568
-17.6647
-18.3052
-17.9066

Model 3:Real GDP=Employment+Investment+ Hydropower EC

2
1
2
2
-25.7735
-18.0247
-18.8220
-18.4233

Model 4:Real GDP=Employment+Investment+Biomass Wooddrived EC
Model 5:Real GDP=Employment+Investment+Biomass Wastedrived EC
Model 6:Real GDP=Employment+Investment+Geothermal EC

-24.2653
-16.6757
-17.3138
-16.9152
2
2
2
2
-26.1630
-18.4142
-19.2114
-18.8128
2
2
6
2
-21.4469
-14.8194
-16.5588
-15.3432
2
2
2
2

-23.0602
-15.6311
Note: Abbreviations are defined as follows: AIC=Akaike information
criteria,
SBC=-16.5377
Schwarz -16.0844
Bayesian
information criteria, HQC=Hannan-Quinn information criteria, HJC=Hatemi-J information criteria,
REC=Renewable energy consumption and EC= Energy consumption. First number is selected lag length and
second one is min test stats of relevant criteria.

Note: Abbreviations are defined as follows: AIC=Akaike information criteria, SBC= Schwarz
Bayesian information criteria, HQC=Hannan-Quinn information criteria, HJC=Hatemi-J
information criteria, REC=Renewable energy consumption and EC= Energy consumption.
First number is selected lag length and second one is min test stats of relevant criteria.
In the last step bootstrap-corrected causality test was applied. Table 4 illustrates the MWALD
stats and critical values.
Table 4: Causality Test Results
H0: REC does not Granger cause GDP

H0: GDP does not Granger cause REC

MWALD

%1 CV

%5 CV

%10 CV

MWALD

%1 CV

%5 CV

%10 CV

Model 1

0.069

10.505

6.590

4.974

2.288

10.727

6.764

5.087

Model 2

2.226

11.078

6.833

5.162

1.602

10.847

6.764

5.108

Model 3

0.966

10.272

6.447

4.915

1.261

10.754

6.758

5.090

Model 4

1.637

10.610

6.623

4.996

1.684

10.965

6.839

5.181

Model 5

12.422*

11.681

6.969

5.160

4.482

11.872

7.003

5.186

Model 6

1.228

11.064

6.871

5.148

0.332

11.603

6.994

5.255

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Note: * represents rejection of null hypothesis at 1% significance level. REC=Renewable energy consumption.
For definitions of the models see Table 3.

According to Table 4 only one causal relationship was found from biomass-waste-drived
energy consumption to real GDP. This finding supports the growth hypothesis. No causal
relationship was found between all of the other renewable energy kinds and real GDP. All of
the findings, except for biomass-waste-drived energy consumption, support the neutrality
hypothesis.
4.CONCLUSION
Recent debates about relationship between renewable energy consumption and economic
growth manifest two main expectations. Firstly, renewable energy consumption should
contribute to economic growth and secondly, it should not cause a damage on environment.
This study focuses on the first issue by applying bootstrap-corrected causality test for the US
since empirical literature criticizes the Toda-Yamamoto test which bases on asymptotic
distribution.
According to bootstrap-corrected causality test results only one causal relationship was found
from biomass-waste-drived energy consumption to real GDP. No causal relationship was
found between all of the other renewable energy kinds and real GDP. These findings are
interesting since biomass-waste-drived energy consumption has a low percentage (6%) of
total renewable energy consumption.
Many developed countries are trying to dump their garbage on the lands of lesser developed
countries. However dumping garbage on other places spreads pollutions and diseases instead
of solving the problem. In fact it is more dangerous to dump garbage in the less developed
countries since there are neither technologies available to process it nor enough awareness.
Even creating landfills wastes precious resources. Lastly our findings indicate that there is a
causality from waste-drived energy to real GDP. Using of energy from waste cause not only
to resolve the dumping problems but also it contributes to real GDP. The countries that are
using other energy resources do not take advantage from using waste-drived energy. For
policy purpose, the results of this study suggest that countries should concentrate on energy
producing from waste as an alternative energy resource.
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An Analysis of Theories on Stock Returns
Ahmet Sekreter
Abstract
Objective in writing this article is to provide an overview of the theories that has been
developed for stock returns which is an important area of financial markets’ researches. Since
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A Research about the Impacts of Economic Crisis
on Destination Marketing: Istanbul Example
Burhanettin ZENGĠN
Asst. Prof. Dr., Sakarya University,
Department of Tourism Management, TURKEY
bzengin@sakarya.edu.tr
Lütfi Mustafa ġEN
Res. Asst., Sakarya University,
Department of Tourism Management, TURKEY
lsen@sakarya.edu.tr

Abstract: The objective of this study is to offer the alternative policies and strategies in the
context of destination marketing which would be followed by the destination management
organizations and touristic businesses in marketing their services and products to minimize the
impacts of the economic crisis on touristic destinations when the probability of economic crisis is
high, and to contribute to the studies that have been done on this issue. The questionnaire method
was chosen to collect the data in this study. Sample questions were presented via Five-point
Likert and Category Scales. The number of tourism agents operating in Turkey is 5,801, and 2000
of those, that is 33.6%, are in Istanbul. Therefore, considering the time constraint, number of
travel agencies in Istanbul constitutes our study population. The study sample is 300 Type A, B, C
tourism agencies in Istanbul selected by simple random sampling method and corresponding to
15% of the study population. The data obtained was analyzed in computer environment by using
SPSS for Windows package program. Demographic data obtained from survey was subjected to
frequency analysis; appropriate data was subjected to the Chi-square test.

Introduction
Being rich in tourist attractions just is not enough for a touristic destination to be successful nowadays. Due
to tough competition in tourism sector, attracting tourists to touristic destinations is very complex and lengthy
process, and requires planned destination marketing. The success of destination marketing efforts depends on
accurate determination and implementation of policies and strategies, identification of target markets, and success of
joint studies conducted by public and private sector organizations operating in the country with respect to planning of
publicity and advertising activities for these markets.
As known, tourism industry can be affected to a great extent by the smallest socio-cultural, economic,
political and business cycle of changes. Therefore, in times of crisis, especially in times of economic crisis, crisis
management and destination marketing policies and strategies to follow have even greater importance. Because in
times of economic crisis, touristic demand structure and consumer behaviors in the target markets should be analyzed
very well, and destination marketing policies and strategies should be identified accordingly.

Definition and Characteristics of Tourism Destinations
World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) defines a local tourism destination as a physical area where a
tourist spent a night at least. A tourism destination contains touristic products such as support services during a day
trip, attractions and tourist resources. It does have physical and administrative boundaries with respect to
management, images and perceptions with respect to market competitiveness. Destinations bring various hosts
together, and they can combine to create a network for wider destinations (UNWTO, 2007).
Tourism destination is defined as a geographical location or region where tourists are located within the
local community. First of all, the destination is considered as a system includes inputs and outputs, communities and
services, and business areas (Özdemir, 2008, p. 4). Gunn is suggested that all destinations share certain common
features, and knowing that facilitates the design and development of the destinations. He was referring the following
key features of destinations listed in Mathieson and Walls study (Howie, 2003, p. 74):

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Natural environmental features and processes
Economic structure and development
Social structure and layout
Political organization
The level of touristic development

Destination Marketing
Destination marketing aims to make the identity of a destination, established in compliance with the
characteristics of that place, more appealing via the effective communication studies for the selected target audience.
Since the destination marketing is managed by the individuals and/or entities located within destination borders, and
with wide knowledge about the destination, and with dreams and expectations about the future of destination, this
type of marketing is a strategy that has a potential to offer more flexible, fast and creative solutions, and to minimize
the potential risks (Yavuz, 2007, p. 40).
Development of an effective marketing management and strategy that has a clear vision and direction,
marketing of destination in a effective and rational way, continuous checking of the brand image which is the most
important component of a brand, are essential elements in destination marketing and branding to ensure the optimum
benefits from the attractive aspects and different features of a destination (Demir, 2009).
Spain is one of the best examples shows how important destination marketing is in tourism development
and increasing tourism revenues in a country. That is, Spain has significant role in many international organization
and fairs, and has significant athletic facilities. It also plays an important role in tourism in terms of tourism
infrastructure and number of hotels, and car rental services. It is ranked tenth in Europe in terms of air transport
infrastructure. It is well known that the government in Spain has given priority to tourism industry, strong
destination marketing studies have been conducted, and Spain has been presented in many international fairs (Aksu,
2009).

Definition and Characteristics of the Crisis
The crisis is a situation that creates tension and threatens the high-level objectives of an organization,
sometimes endangering the lives of organizations, and requires immediate reaction, and the organization's crisis
prediction and prevention mechanisms becomes insufficient (Can, 1999, p. 315).
In another source, the crisis is defined as follows; "The crisis is a situation which is unexpected and
unpredictable, requires organization‘s quick and immediate response, threatens organization‘s current values,
purposes and assumptions by making organization‘s prevention and adaptation mechanism inadequate. Stress,
anxiety, panic, etc.. is the expression of emotions experienced in times of crisis‖ (Tağraf &amp; Arslan, 2003, p. 150).
The features of the crisis can be listed as follows (Aykaç, 2001, p. 125):
 Organizational structures, values and norms to be affected negatively,
 Unexpected developments occur,
 Crisis situation can not be estimated,
 Inadequate mechanisms to prevent,
 Crisis, threatening the existence purpose of the organization,
 The lack of adequate information and time for the measures to prevent the crisis.
 Requires the immediate implementation of the measures taken
 Create tension in the management of the organization
Some crises are the results of the natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, volcanic
explosions, hurricanes, and landslides. Other crises like environmental pollution, crime, war, terrorism, economic
stagnation and strikes are caused by the people. Either short-term or long term, whether natural or man-made
disaster, the common features of the crisis that has potential impact on tourism industry consist of three parts (Pike,
2004, p. 158):
 Any destination is not exempt from the crisis in the long term
 A crisis is rarely predictable.
 The causes of the crisis are outside of the tourism industry‘s control.

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Definition and Characteristics of Crisis Management
In contrast to emergency and risk management discipline addressing natural disasters, crisis management
concerns man-made or man-caused crisis such as child abduction, environmental pollution, sexual harassment,
abuse, and defective products. Crisis management is the strategic planning done before and after the crisis to ensure
the least damage out of unexpected situations (Otay, 2008).
Some features of crisis management are unique. Some of these features are listed below (HaĢit, 2000, p. 65):
 Crisis management primarily aims to reveal the businesses those can predict the crisis in advance,
distinguish between the types and take the necessary measures accordingly, learn new things, and recover in
the shortest time possible.
 Crisis prevention varies according to managers' perceptions of the crisis. The probability of success in the
prevention of crises is increasing when crisis managers perceived the crisis as threatening
 Crisis management has no beginning and end, and is an application that requires continuity.
 Crisis management is constituted according to the type of crisis. Crisis management is tailored to the type of
crisis since each type of crisis contains its own signs and solutions.

Crisis and Tourism
The crisis in tourism in general can be described as follows; is an event which causes disruption in normal
functioning of tourism-related businesses, damages all the reputation of the safety, attractiveness, and comfort of a
touristic destination by negatively affecting the perceptions of visitors, as a result, negatively affects tourism
economy and causes reduced tourist arrival and spending, delay doing business in the tourism sector (Glaesser, 2005,
p. 6).
The crisis management in tourism is defined as information gathering, assessment, action planning,
implementation and control functions carried out to eliminate the effects of an event or events emerged unexpectedly
and negatively affecting the image of a product, organization, country or region, ultimately leading to social and
economic losses. The crisis management is not an activity only covering the period after the emergence of the crisis.
The crisis management in fact includes the activities such as determination of the warning signals, and establishment
of protection and prevention mechanism to be carried out in the period until the emergence of the crisis. Therefore,
the crisis management involves a long process (Köroğlu, 2004, p. 71).
Tourism is an economic activity in terms of bringing foreign currencies and creating employment; is a
socio-cultural activity in terms of bringing together different cultures and meeting recreational needs of the people.
It is also an activity field where demands have positive and negative impacts on the environment. Tourism, one of
the world's fastest growing sectors, has significant problems today. The economic crisis in the world has negatively
affected the tourism sector (Aymankuy, 2001, p. 109).
The businesses struggling to survive in an intensive competition environment, at the same time, are obliged
to fight with the crisis which nearly turned into a chronic crisis in Turkey. In addition to all this, many economies
around the globe have been affected by the increasing size of the problems that began as a credit crisis in the world's
largest economy in the U.S. in 2008, and reflected in the financial markets, and as a result, the world has come to the
brink of a financial downturn. The negative impacts of the global economic crisis are observed in all sectors in our
country (especially at the beginning of the year 2009). As having its own crisis, tourism sector has been also
significantly affected by this type macro crisis, and difficulties have been experienced in the management of tourism
businesses operating in this area (Bahar et al., 2009, p. 28).
It is clear that despite the ongoing financial downturn, a variety of tourist products and services are
provided. Meetings, incentive travel, conference or exhibition have been identified as the most affected touristic
services in a variety of touristic destinations. Apparently, while shopping and entertainment jobs were reducing in
coastal, urban and a variety of destinations, cultural attractions have suffered a severe decline in many coastal,
mountain and urban destinations (UNWTO, 2009).
The strategy to be followed by Turkish tourism against the global economic crisis is very important. In this
context, focusing attracting tourists from upper income segments to the country has become more important rather
than the number of tourists arriving into the country. Bringing the service quality, customer satisfaction and
innovation to the forefront, bringing the revenue to maximum level while reducing costs, and keeping the sound cash
flow are extremely important to exit from the crisis with minimum losses and even making profit from the crisis
(Demir, 2008).

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Objectives of the Study
The objective of this study is to offer the alternative policies and strategies in the context of destination
marketing that would be followed by the destination management organizations and touristic businesses in marketing
their services and products to minimize the impacts of the economic crisis on touristic destinations when the
probability of economic crisis is high, and to contribute to the studies that have been done on this issue. Therefore,
we believe that our study will be beneficial to our tour operators and travel agents, that have a significant role in
obtaining foreign currency income needed in our country, by offering them different view and solutions in the
context of destination marketing to minimize the income loss and the contraction in touristic demand especially in
times of economic crisis.

Method
The questionnaire method is chosen to collect the data in our study. The reason for choosing this method is
to obtain desired data from a large number of subjects in a short time, and analyze obtained data quickly and reliably
with the help of computer-aided statistical data analysis programs. Questionnaire consists of two groups. The first
group includes demographic questions; categorical style is used in design of the first group questions and the other
questions that aim to assess the impacts of global economic crisis on destination marketing policies of businesses.
The five-point Likert scale was created to resolve the main issues of this study.
The ideal study population consists of 5,801 A, B and C type of travel agencies in Turkey. However,
considering the time constraint, 2000 A, B, and C type travel agencies in Istanbul have been determined as the
realistic population of this study. The study sample is consist of 300 Type A,B, C tourism agencies in Istanbul
selected by simple random sampling method and corresponding to 15% of the realistic population of this study.
Questionnaires were administered to middle and upper level managers in travel agents. 350 questionnaires were
distributed, 191 out of 350 questionnaires were received back, 157 out of 191 were subjected to analysis, the
remaining 34 out of 191 were not subjected to analysis due to lack of proper data.
The data obtained was analyzed in computer environment using SPSS 15.0 for Windows package program.
Demographic data and business-related data obtained from the survey were subjected to frequency analysis. In
addition, the appropriate data was subjected to the Chi-Square test, an analysis technique for examining
relationships.

Findings
The analysis of the demographic data in Table 1 shows that 61.2% of the participants‘ is male, 38.8% of the
participants‘ is female, 30.5% of the participants‘ is in age group of 18-25, 41.4% of the participants‘ is in age group
of 26-30, 21% of the participants‘ in age group of 31-35; % 5.7 of the participants‘ in age group of 36-40; 1.2% of
the participants‘ is in age group of 41 and over. The analysis of the participants‘ educational status shows that
majority of the participants are university graduates. 56% of participants‘ has undergraduate degree; 5.7% of the
participants‘ has graduate degree. In parallel, such a large part, 44,6% of the participants‘, are tourism school
graduates. A large portion of our audience (study sample), approximately 40%, is working in marketing and sales
departments. Another noteworthy issue in Table 1 is, almost all of our audience (study sample), 92.3% of the
participants‘, is consisted of middle and upper level managers, which increase the credibility of our work. In
addition, 80% of our sample group has 1 to 10 years working experience in the sector, which also indicates the high
working experience level of the participants.

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CHARACTERISTICS
Sex
Male
Female
Total
Age
18-25
26-30
31-35
36-40
41 and over
Total

SAMPLE
n
96
61
157
n
48
65
33
9
2
157
n
Marital Status
60
Married
97
Single
157
Total
n
Educational Background
12
Primary Education
48
Secondary Education
88
University
9
Graduate Education
157
Total
n
Have you received tourism education?
70
Yes
87
No
157
Total
n
Division
9
Purchasing
9
Human Resources
8
Accounting-Financing
54
Operation
61
Sales &amp; Marketing
16
Management
157
Total
n
Position in The Business
12
Personnel
88
Middle Manager
57
Senior Executive
157
Total
Total Working Period in Tourism Industry (Year) n
18
Less than a year
60
1-5
48
6-10
19
11-15
12
16 and over
157
Total
Total Working Period in The Business That You n

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%
61,2
38,8
100
%
30,5
41,4
21,0
5,7
1,2
100
%
38,3
61,7
100
%
7,6
30,5
56,0
5,7
100
%
44,6
55,4
100
%
5,7
5,7
5,0
34,3
38,8
10,1
100
%
7,6
56,0
36,3
100
%
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38,2
30,5
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are Working Now (Year)
Less than a year
1-5
6-10
11-15
16 and over
Total

12
78
37
21
9
157

7,6
49,6
23,5
13,3
5,7
100

Table 1. Demographic Data
The data in Table 2 is of great importance for our study since it provides updated information of what extent
travel agents are affected by the crisis in 2009, when the impacts of the global economic crisis are being felt the most
in Turkey. The analysis of the data in Table 2 reveals the following conclusions, and is emerging as important; %
47.7 of the participating businesses‘ is Group A, % 12.1 is Group B, and % 40.2 is Group C travel agencies. The
majority of businesses, that is 36.2%, have expressed that they had a bad year in 2009 in terms of economic situation.
Likewise, in 2009, 61.1% of the participating businesses‘ could reach the number of customers purchased 0-5000
travel products; only 38.9% of participating businesses‘ could hit 5000-20000 and above. Again in 2009, 54.1% of
the participating businesses' noted 00-10% decrease in service production; 67.5% of the participating businesses‘
noted 00-10% decrease in employment. All these data clearly shows the extent of negative impacts of the global
economic crisis on travel enterprises operating in Turkey. However, it also shows that the participating businesses
are more positive about economics situation in 2010. Indeed, 52.1% of the participating businesses‘ believes that
2010 will be better off in terms of economic situation. However, approximately 50% of the participating businesses‘
believes that the process of economic recovery in Turkish tourism industry has already started.
CHARACTERISTICS
Choose your type of business
Tour Operator (A Group)
Travel Agency (B Group)
Travel Agency (C Group)
Total
How many people are working in your business
1-5
6-10
11-15
16-20
21 and over
Total
What is the average number of customers that buy travel products in
your business in 2009?
0-5.000
5.001-10.000
10.001-15.000
15.001-20.000
20.001 and over
Total
How was the economic condition in terms of your business in 2009
Very good
Good
Break-Even
Bad
Very bad
Total
What do you think about that; how will be the economic condition in
terms of your business in 2010?

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N
%
75
47,7
19
12,1
63
40,1
157
100
N
%
88
56,0
22
14,0
18
11,4
15
9,5
14
8,9
157
100
N

%

96
16
22
9
14
157
N
10
27
63
36
21
157

61,1
10,1
14,0
5,7
8,9
100
%
6,3
17,1
40,1
22,9
13,3
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Very good
Good
Break-Even
Bad
Very bad
Total
Have you ever encountered economic crisis situation in your business
before?
Yes
No
Total
Have the crisis management policies been carried out for Turkish
tourism sector in 2009 successfully?
Yes
Partly
No
Total
Has the economic recovery process started in Turkish tourism sector so
far?
Yes
Partly
No
Total
If your service production had decrease, to what extent has this decrease
been?
Less than 10%
10-19%
20-29%
30-39%
40-49%
More than 50%
Total
If your employment was decreased, to what extent has this decrease
would be?
Less than 10%
10-19%
20-29%
30-39%
40-49%
More than 50%
Total
Do you have a shortage in financing?
Yes
Partly
No
Total
Did you invest in tourism in 2009
We did not invest
We bought business
We invested in the modernization
We invested abroad
We entered to a new investment
Total
Do you want to increase capacity or invest in tourism for 2010

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18
64
63
9
3
157

11,4
40,7
40,1
5,7
1,9
100

N

%

119
38
157

75,8
24,2
100

N

%

70
33
54
157

44,5
21,0
34,3
100

N

%

76
48
33
157

48,4
30,5
21,0
100

N

%

85
27
12
9
15
9
157

54,1
17,1
7,6
5,7
9,5
5,7
100

N

%

106
23
9
12
6
1
157
N
40
103
14
157
N
36
12
75
6
28
157
N

67,5
14,6
5,7
7,6
3,8
0,6
100
%
25,4
65,6
8,9
100
%
22,9
7,6
47,7
3,8
17,8
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Yes. We want to invest in domestic
Yes. We want to invest in abroad
No.
Total
How was the change of your costs in 2009?
Increased
Unchanged
Decreased
Total
Table 2: Business Related Data

82
24
51
157
N
70
51
36
157

52,2
15,2
32,4
100
%
44,5
32,4
22,9
100

Table 3 shows the results of Chi-Square test. Chi-Square test helps to determine whether a systematic
relationship between two variables exists. Chi-Square test, in other words, is used to test whether the observed
relationship between variables is statistically meaningful (AltunıĢık et al., 2005, p.195). As noted in Table 3, in ChiSquare test, having the Asymp. Sig. values less than 5% shows a meaningful relationship between variables.
PROPERTIES
* Type of business
* In Turkey, an effective crisis management strategy, or strategies and vulnerable
businesses directly affected the economic crisis .
* Type of business
* Cooperation between public and private sectors decreases the economic crisis
devastating effects on the sector.
* Type of business
* In the tourism sector derivative financial instruments (futures, forwards,
options, swaps, etc..) Gaining popularity in use, will increase the negative effects
of economic crisis.
* Type of business
* Upgrades to banks' credit costs in the economic crisis, tourism businesses are
left in the lurch financially.
* Type of business
* Destination marketing for different markets reduces the impact of economic
crisis.
* Type of business
* The marketing of destinations as well makes the difference, in economic crisis,
businesses can increase their foreign exchange income.
* Type of business
* In the economic crisis, businesses, high income levels of competition for the
marketing efforts power is increased.
* Educational Background
* Businesses to reduce their prices, tourism demand is increasing by reducing
the impact of economic crisis
* Educational Background
* Political tensions which lead to narrowing impact of demand, effect economic
crisis increases.
* Educational Background
* Improving service quality, reduce the impact of economic crisis
* Educational Background
* Establishing crisis management team provides a business to get through the
crisis with the least damage.
* Educational Background
* Building Turkey's own tour operator system , by reducing touristic demand
recession in the economic crisis , increases competitiveness in the international
arena

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Asymp. Sig.

89,397a

,000

22,986a

,003

34,725a

,000

23,672a

,003

32,596a

,000

26,803a

,001

64,249a

,000

233,001a

,000

322,025a

,000

145,862a

,000

190,577a

,000

127,379a

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* Educational Background
* In the economic crisis, state's increasing the allowance for promotional
campaign in different markets, remains a positive impact on tourist demand
* Educational Background
* During the economic crisis, increasing the incentives given to investors, the
economic crisis may reduce the impact of the tourism sector.
* Educational Background
* During the economic crisis, tourism taxes to eliminate the impact of economic
crisis by increasing tourist demand decreases.
* Educational Background
* Spread over 12 months of alternative tourism by developing tourism, the
destinations reduces the effect of strengthening the economic crisis.
* Educational Background
* Against possible economic crisis faced by the tourism sector, preventive crisis
management plans to make our country a significant competitive edge against
rival offers destinations.
* Total Working Period in Tourism Industry
* Governmental support to Turkish tour operators ,in the medium term by
increasing the demand for international tourists, especially could minimize the
negative effects of the global economic crisis .
* Total Working Period in Tourism Industry
* To increase domestic tourism demand, global economic crisis by minimizing
the effects of demand contraction to reduce working capital needs.
* Total Working Period in Tourism Industry
* Increasing advertising and promotional campaign for domestic tourism has a
positive effect on destination marketing in times of economic crisis
* Total Working Period in Tourism Industry
* The use of different promotional and sales techniques, in times of economic
crisis has a positive impact on destination marketing.
* Total Working Period in Tourism Industry
* Resources and reduction of operating costs, in times of economic crisis has a
positive effect on destination marketing.
* Total Working Period in Tourism Industry
* Going to the integration of another business affects destination marketing
positively in times of economic crisis.
* Total Working Period in Tourism Industry
* Postponing payments or extending the maturity of loans, has a positive effect
on destination marketing in times of economic crisis.
* Total Working Period in Tourism Industry
* Removing the staff has a positive effect on destination marketing in times of
economic crisis.
* Total Working Period in Tourism Industry
*Organizational downsizing has a positive effect on destination marketing in
times of economic crisis.

217,537a

,000

167,923a

,000

166,876a

,000

255,329a

,000

199,555a

,000

155,879a

,000

200,355a

,000

239,396a

,000

253,480a

,000

242,624a

,000

274,542a

,000

320,185a

,000

276,945a

,000

200,148a

,000

Table 3: Chi-Square Test Results

Conclusion and Recommendations
Global economic crisis emerging in the United States spread all over the word as the use of derivative
financial instruments such as futures, forwards, options, swaps, etc. has been gained popularity in stock exchanges in
the world. In Turkey, particularly with the establishment of Turkish Derivatives Exchange, the widespread use of
these types of derivative financial instruments in tourism industry is one of the biggest reason that the businesses
affected by the crisis. This crisis has shown that non-operating items in the balance sheets of the businesses should
be under control, and any global financial crisis signs must be well analyzed. In addition to all this, as the increased

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bank credit costs, businesses have been further weakened in this difficult time of economic crisis. Lowering the cost
of resources and activities to relief of financial hardship stemming from the crisis is of vital importance. For this, all
performed business activities should be analyzed in detail, and unnecessary and non-value-added activities should be
eliminated. Thus, an increase on the profitability can be achieved by lowering the cost of goods and services by
eliminating resource costs caused by non-income-generating activities.
The studies about crisis management are of great importance to minimize the demand contraction for
destinations caused by the economic crisis. Therefore, strategies for crisis management for the Turkish tourism
sector should be developed primarily at the macro level, and then preventive crisis management plan should be
formed in line with these strategies on destination basis. Because the characteristics, the target market/markets,
consumer demands and market needs are different for each destination. Therefore, while developing destination
marketing activities in times of crisis, such matters shall be taken into consideration. In later stages, establishing
crisis management teams on destination basis is of great importance to apply destination crisis management plans
designed in line with crisis management strategies.
As the basic strategy in times of economic crisis, performing destination marketing studies targeting the
upper income levels is of great importance to maximize the profits. Number of foreign tourists coming to Turkey in
2008 was 30.9 million, reached to 32 millions in 2009 increasing by 3.3%. However, total tourism revenue in
Turkey in 2008 was 21,950.8 million dollars, decreased by 3.2% in 2009, declined to $ 21,249.3 million
(www.turizm.gov.tr). As shown, in spite of the increase in the number of tourists compared to the previous year,
tourism revenues decreased in reverse. Therefore, it would be a much wiser strategy to perform destination
marketing efforts focusing on increasing the number of tourist from upper income level rather than increasing the
number of tourists via cheap mass tourism. The implementation of specific marketing activities such as performing
destination marketing focused on different markets, marketing distinctive aspects of destinations, improving the
quality of services, spreading to 12 months by developing alternative tourism, using different promotional and sales
techniques, etc. are of great importance to successfully implement this basic strategy.
In addition, the destination marketing activities performed by the governments in times of economic crisis
might be quite useful to minimize the impacts of the crisis on businesses. These are, increasing governmental funds
for promotional activities in different markets in times of crisis, increasing the incentives given to investors,
minimizing or eliminating the taxes in tourism sector, providing government support to Turkish tour operators, etc.
In this context, establishing Turkey's own tour operator system is vital. Because by doing this, the dependence of the
Turkish travel agents to foreign tour operators will be eliminated, and therefore, keeping more foreign currency in
the country will reduce the negative impacts of the crisis on travel enterprises.

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