Turkey fails in party funding transparency, report says

Depsite the improvements and amendments made in the code, Turkey ranked as ‘globally unsatisfactory’ on the issue of the transparency of party funding and failed to meet many recommendations in fight against corruption, according to a report issued by the Council of Europe’s body Turkey is “globally unsatisfactory” on the issue of the transparency of party funding, according to a report issued by the Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO). 

The Second Compliance Report on Turkey published by GRECO concluded that Turkey had failed to meet most previous recommendations on the issue, dealing “satisfactorily” with only four out of 17 recommendations.

“GRECO concludes that Turkey has implemented satisfactorily or dealt with in a satisfactory manner only four of the 17 recommendations contained in the Third Round Evaluation Report. Of the remaining recommendations nine have been partly implemented and four have not been implemented,” according to the report.

“Under these circumstances, GRECO has no choice but to consider the situation [on the Transparency of Party Funding theme] as ‘globally unsatisfactory,’” it added.

The report stated that Turkey had “not made any substantial and tangible progress” on the transparency of party funding, but had made some improvements in the “incriminations” issue.

“More particularly, none of the nine recommendations addressed to the country in the aforementioned area [Transparency of Party Funding] has been implemented satisfactorily or dealt with in a satisfactory manner,” the report also read.

While four recommendations in the “incriminations” area were regarded as “satisfactory,”...