Das türkische Strafgesetzbuch - Türk Ceza Kanunu Gesetz Nr. 5237 vom 26. September 2004. Deutsche Übersetzung und Einführung von Silvia Tellenbach. 3. Auflage, nach dem Stand vom 10. Juli 2025. Zweisprachige Ausgabe

After passing the Second State Examination in Law in 1976, the author earned a doctorate in Islamic Studies in 1984 with a thesis on the 1979 Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Since 1975, she has been affiliated with the then Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, where she served as Head of the Turkey, Iran and Arab States Division from 1984 until her retirement. Her research has produced numerous publications on criminal and constitutional law in these countries, as well as on Islamic criminal law. In 2017, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul.