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<\/span><\/p>\n OECD questions Turkey’s implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n 08\/01\/2008 – The OECD Working Group on Bribery has serious concerns about The Working Group recommends carrying out another on-site visit to Turkey Turkey, for example, repealed corporate criminal liability for the offence In addition to recommending that Turkey urgently rectify these problems, Repeal a provision in the Turkish Criminal Code that releases offenders Expressly deny the tax deductibility of bribes to foreign public officials Urgently establish awareness-raising programmes on foreign bribery for the The Working Group recognised that Turkey took an important step by The Phase 2 Report on Turkey lists the Working Group’s recommendations to For further information, journalists are invited to contact the OECD’s Also available: REPORT PDF FILE OECD questions Turkey’s implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention 08\/01\/2008 – The OECD Working Group on Bribery has serious concerns about Turkey’s implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention. Turkey, a Party to the Convention since 2000, has yet to implement key elements of the Convention, including introducing corporate liability for the bribery […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":51346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTurkey’s implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention. Turkey, a
\nParty to the Convention since 2000, has yet to implement key elements of
\nthe Convention, including introducing corporate liability for the bribery
\nof foreign public officials and effectively enforcing its foreign bribery
\noffence.<\/p>\n
\nwithin one year to check on progress by the Turkish authorities to remedy
\nthese and other issues.<\/p>\n
\nof foreign bribery in 2005 and replaced it with “security measures” that
\ndo not meet the standards of the Convention. In addition, Turkey dismissed
\nan investigation of a foreign bribery case allegedly involving a Turkish
\nholding company and Turkish nationals in another country, for reasons that
\ndo not satisfy the Working Group. The case resulted in charges against the
\npresident of the company and several other company officials in the other
\ncountry. Turkey also took two years to act on allegations of illicit
\npayments to the Iraqi government by 139 Turkish companies in the United
\nNations Oil-for-Food Programme.<\/p>\n
\nthe Working Group recommends that Turkey:<\/p>\n
\nfrom penalties for the foreign bribery offence in exchange for having
\nreported the offence to the law enforcement authorities;<\/p>\n
\nin the tax law; and<\/p>\n
\nTurkish public and private sectors.<\/p>\n
\namending its foreign bribery offence in 2005. Progress on certain
\nsupplementary issues include efforts made by T|rk Eximbank, Turkey’s
\nofficial export credit support agency, MASAK, Turkey’s financial
\nintelligence unit, and the Ministry of Finance, to publicise the
\nConvention. T|rk Eximbank has also undertaken training and informational
\nactivities for staff and applicants for export credit support. Other
\ninitiatives include the preparation of regulations by MASAK to improve
\nsuspicious transaction reporting of money laundering transactions, the
\nsubmission to Parliament of a draft Witness Protection Act, and an
\ninitiative to bring Turkish accounting standards in line with
\nInternational Accounting Standards.<\/p>\n
\nTurkey on pages 62-66, includes an overview of the findings of the Working
\nGroup in the Phase 2 examination, and describes specific legal and policy
\nfeatures in Turkey for combating the bribery of foreign public officials.
\nThe future report on Turkey’s additional examination will also be
\npublished. In addition, as with all other OECD Working Group members,
\nTurkey will orally report to the Working Group on its actions to implement
\nthe Working Group’s recommendations after one year. Turkey will also
\nsubmit a written report to the Working Group within two years, which will
\nbe published on the OECD website.<\/p>\n
\nMedia Division (tel. (33) 1 45 24 97 00) and for more information on the
\nOECD’s work to fight corruption, visit www.oecd.org\/daf\/nocorruption.<\/p>\n
\nL’OCDE s’interroge sur la mise en uvre par la Turquie de la Convention
\nanticorruption de l’OCDE (French)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"