ABSTRACT

Forensic document examination is a ımıltidisipliner branch of work cleals with the workout on the documents for research and investigation.

It covers handwriting and signature comparisons, type-written and print out documents, photocopies, preprinted document, fake notes, valuable documents, passport con-siderations, paper and ink analysis.

Eventhough it has been implemented for a long period in the western countries, it couldn't be standardized in our country.

With this purpose relevant resources constitutions of American Society of Questioned Document Examiners and Geselschaft für Forensische Schriftuntersuchung are taken into account. Then membership conditions of the examin-ers and responsibilities, implementation of the workouts were clearly declared.

As a conclusion, it was agreed that the implementation of this workout with the Standard criterias will create an objective and useful working area in our country. Which has been implemented with the certain rules and diciplines under the efficient control mechanism like western countries.

Keywords: Forensic Document Examination, Questioned Documents, Forensic Document Examiner, Graphology, Caligraphy.