A prayer for the last 10 years in Turkey Corruption Perceptions Index – DW – 31.01.2023
Transparency International’s 2022 Corruption Perception Index has been announced. Turkey ranked 101st among 180 countries in the index with 36 points.
Turkey was ranked 96th with 38 points in the index of 2021 points in its indicators last year. Accordingly, while Turkey has lost two points in the last year, it has regressed five more places in the country ranking. It settled in the same place as Thailand, Sri Lanka, Serbia, Peru, Panama, Kazakhstan, Ecuador and Albania.
With the announced index, Turkey has also received the lowest score of the last 10 years.
Turkey, which is in the 53rd place in the world average with 50 points in the index of 2013 scores, declined significantly in 10 years and fell 48 places at once. This was also the lowest score Turkey has received since the index was announced. Turkey was in the 54th place with 49 points in 2012, when the penalty was first announced.
Evaluating the Corruption Perception Index 2022 Report in DW Turkish, Transparency International Turkey Representative Oya Özarslan describes the last 10 years as “Turkey’s going downhill process”. According to Özarslan, emphasizing that Turkey fell behind 48 countries with a loss of 14 points in 10 years, this picture is due to the fact that no steps were taken to combat failure in Turkey.
Kingdom of Lesotho overtakes Turkey
Lesotho, a small kingdom in Sub-Saharan Africa, which shared the same award with Turkey last year, has risen one step above Turkey in the last year, while Argentina and Brazil have moved up two places above Turkey. With Turkey’s 36 points, it also lagged behind countries such as Kosovo, Colombia, Ethiopia and Tanzania.
In the 2020 Index, Turkey was ranked 86th among 180 countries with 40 points in corruption perception.
The Corruption Perceptions Index ranks 180 countries according to perceived public sector deterioration, based on the opinions of experts and business people. Based on a total of 13 independent data sources, deterioration in the index is rated from 0 to 100. Accordingly, 0 marks it as highly corrupt and 100 marks it as completely corruption-free.
The average of 180 countries included in the index is 43. While Turkey is below the general average with the score it has achieved, the place where corruption is very intense is two steps closer.
Corruption linked to conduct
Last year, the average score of schools in Eastern European and Central Asian countries, including Turkey, was 35. The region has the lowest average score after Sub-Saharan Africa. According to the Corruption Perceptions Index 2022 Report, this is closely linked to high levels of failure, political instability, weakened structures and – at the extremes – riparian conflicts. There is a vicious circle between corruption and organisation, as many governments in the region undermine their democratic structures, narrow civic space and curtail media freedoms.
To advance its democracy and past supremacy, Turkey needs to eliminate the weakening of the separation of powers and establish a stronger legal and institutional framework to combat collapse to prosecute corruption, to ensure the spread of dominance, according to the report.
Transparency International Representative Oya Özarslan said that Turkey has been graylisted by the OECD Financial Action Task Force FATF and that the European Anti-Corruption Group (GRECO) should keep constant warnings about the elements that should be accommodated, “We have problems in compliance with all the agreements we are party to. Warnings are coming from institutions.
“The politicization of the judiciary is effective”
Emphasizing that it has become very common for any journalist who writes about corruption in Turkey to face costs such as compensation and fines, Özarslan points out that the corruption news also hinders the personal rights of the person alleged to be involved in corruption.
Özarslan said, “In addition to the politicization of the judiciary, the gradual decrease in the number of open tenders in the Public Procurement Law also contributed to the decrease in Turkey’s score,” said Özarslan. There are things we say, such as a record. All that happens is reflected in international indices over time.”
“Struggle should not be promised”
Noting that the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power with the claim of preventing corruption, even the parliamentary commission working on corruption was abolished in this period, Özarslan says that he found the plan to fight corruption and transparency in the consensus formation announced by the Nation Alliance as positive.
Expressing that the fulfillment of promises such as enacting a political ethics law, making the Public Procurement Law internationally appropriate, controlling the money going to tax havens, and ending the peaceful extraction of assets will pave the way for Turkey, Özarslan said, “But they should also know that It is expected to continue to research every party, every group, and ensure its accountability and demand. These must make promises.
Corruption dimensions
The 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index shows that the extent of corruption in the world is large, despite many intense and difficult acquisitions.
Leaving the eleventh year behind, the school scored below 50 more than the third two (68 percent). While only eight countries have increased their scores significantly over the past five years, 10 countries’ scores have dropped significantly, including top-ranked countries such as Austria, Luxembourg and the United Kingdom.
Lowest score to Somalia
Countries with strong institutions and good-looking democracies often find themselves at the top of a unit, according to Transparency International. Countries where conflicts have occurred or where basic personal and political freedoms have been limited show the lowest grades.
In the 2022 index, Denmark leads the ranking with 90 points, followed by Finland and New Zealand with 87 points. Norway, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Netherlands, Germany, Ireland and Luxembourg round out this year’s top 10.
Somalia is at the bottom with 12 points, followed by Syria and South Sudan with 13 points. Venezuela, Yemen, Libya, North Korea, Haiti, Equatorial Guinea and Burundi are also in the last 10.
“The world has become a more dangerous place”
Marking that the COVID-19 pandemic has fueled a wave of lengths of climate crisis and increasing security threats worldwide, the report states that countries that lead to the elimination of migration exacerbate these effects, while disruption and conflict feed each other and threaten lasting peace. With schools ranked at the bottom of the Corruption Perceptions Index paying attention to the emergence of local conflicts either now or in the near future, the report highlights that states with higher levels of failure are more likely to have higher expectations of organized crime and security threats.
Delia Ferreira Rubio, Head of Transparency International, whose statements were included in the report, emphasizes that corruption makes the world a more dangerous place, and that the increase in violent conflicts is fueled by the governments saving money on this issue. That’s why he stresses the endangered existence of human organisms all over the world, says Rubio.
Daniel Eriksson, Chief Executive of Transparency International, said: “Governments must make room for involvement in community decision-making, from business people and activists to marginalized communities and youth. By raising people’s voices in democratic societies, they can help root out corruption and demand a safer world for all of us. ” “user is using.