2010 ilerleme raporu - Avrupa Birliği Bakanlığı

institutions, labour unions and the Turkish Union of Chambers and Stock Exchanges (TOBB)
to form further anti-corruption strategies and to direct and monitor their implementation.
The strategy aims at developing preventive and repressive measures against corruption and
improving public governance by introducing more transparency, accountability and reliability
in the public administration.
An action plan setting the timetables for adoption and implementation of each measure was
approved by the ministerial committee in April 2010. Effective implementation could
contribute to changing behaviour of public administration, so that it promotes and protects
integrity and reduces opportunities for corrupt practices. However, participation by civil
society and its role on the executive board and in implementation of the strategy need to be
strengthened.
By June 2010, Turkey had implemented 15 of the 21 recommendations in the 2005 evaluation
reports by the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO). The GRECO report suggests
further efforts, in particular to broaden the representation of the anti-corruption oversight
body, to enhance the independence of the judiciary and, to reform the system of immunities
and to finally establish the Ombudsman institution. The constitutional amendments provide
the basis for progress on enhancing the independence of the judiciary and an Ombudsman
institution.
In December 2009, the Prime Ministerial Inspection Board was appointed as the counterpart
of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and was given the task of Anti-Fraud
Coordination Structure (AFCOS) responsible for investigation of irregularities in the context
of financial cooperation between the EU and Turkey. (See Chapter 32 – Financial control)
In February 2010, the Constitutional Court annulled the provisions of the Law on the Council
of Ethics regarding publication of the names of civil servants who violate the code of ethics,
on the grounds that publishing names without a judicial decision would jeopardise the
presumption of innocence. Ethics training has continued and around 7,000 civil servants
working for central and local governments have been trained between October 2009 and
September 2010. In September, the Government adopted a regulation on the code of ethics
with which investigators and auditors should comply while doing their jobs. However, no
progress has been made on extending ethics rules to academics, military personnel and the
judiciary.
No progress has been made on limiting the immunities of Members of Parliament concerning
corruption-related offences.
Further measures are needed to complete the existing legislation and ensure its effective
implementation to increase transparency on the financing of political parties and election
campaigns. More resources are also required in order to better detect illegal practice, in
particular to extend the current monitoring mechanism to election campaign funding of parties
and candidates.
For the first time, a mayor of a metropolitan municipality (Adana) was suspended from
mayoral duties on March 2010 by the Ministry of Interior because of serious corruption
allegations. Administrative and judicial investigations are continuing.
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