The OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions sharply criticises Türkiye's implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention in a new assessment. Since 2000 when Türkiye joined the Convention, the Working Group has, through its targeted evaluation process, repeatedly identified serious shortcomings in the country's implementation of the Convention. Major areas of concern include:
- Legislative deficiencies in corporate liability, such as false accounting, successor liability, confiscation, and precondition of a natural person conviction
- Inability to fine individuals for foreign bribery
- Ineffective detection of foreign bribery allegations, including a lack of whistleblower protection in the private and public sectors
- No meaningful efforts to investigate and prosecute actual foreign bribery allegations
- Absence of strategy to combat foreign bribery
As a result, the Working Group on Bribery takes the exceptional step of warning that Türkiye's failure to implement key aspects of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention may necessitate increased due diligence over Turkish companies by their commercial partners, multilateral development banks, Working Group member countries, and other jurisdictions.
