Despite the UN voicing "deep concern" about the planned changes, country will introduce law on 1 May, with proposed punishments including the severing of limbs for theft.
Draft law which proposes to curb the problems of child marriage, FGM, child labour and the use of child soldiers, awaits approval from the country's Parliament.
Berkin Elvan was a 15-year-old boy who was shot with a police tear gas canister during last summer's Gezi Park protests and died after 269 days in a coma.