The OECD Working Group on Bribery on Tuesday called on Turkey to urgently implement key reforms to boost its fight against foreign bribery.
Turkey has not taken sufficient steps to address the group’s concerns about its implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, the group, responsible for monitoring the implementation and enforcement of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, said in a statement, or remains very low level of enforcement of the foreign bribery offence.
Members of the Working Group “remain seriously concerned thatTurkey has not taken measures to protect the independence of investigations and prosecutions, in light of the successive waves of large-scale suspensions and reassignments of judicial and law enforcement officers, which took place in 2014 and 2016,” according to the statement.
The group is set to follow developments in Turkey to implement the Anti-Bribery Convention and to enforce the foreign bribery offence in practice, in particular in the context of Turkey’s Phase 4 evaluation, currently scheduled for June 2023, the statement said.
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