Turkey's Corruption Perceptions Index Ranking Falls Again

Introduction

On February 21 2018 Transparency International published the 2017 Corruption Perceptions Index, which reflects the public sector corruption perspective of non-governmental organisations and representatives of the business world on a scale from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).

New Zealand and Denmark ranked the highest, with respective scores of 89 and 88. Notably, since 2012, several countries have significantly improved their index score – including Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal and the United Kingdom – while several others have declined, including Syria, Yemen and Australia.

Turkey came 81st out of 180 countries (six places lower than 2016) and scored 40 in the perceived corruption scale. This is the fourth consecutive year in which Turkey's ranking has fallen. It has lost 10 points and fallen 28 places over the past five years. Turkey is ranked 13th among the G20 countries and 33rd among the 35 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and