From the responses received, it appears only one criminal case is known to have come to court in Turkey. It involved a man prosecuted for the transmission of HIV to his wife. He was convicted in 2004 and sentenced to 8 years imprisonment.

Our correspondent advises us that the man was eventually found guilty of “injury”. However the case was initially handled as an “act of murder”. The case went all the way to Turkish “Supreme Court of Appeals” (Yargıtay) where it was decided that the HIV positive person was to be sentenced for an “act of injury." Accordingly this case is considered to be very important because it serves as precedent.