Introduction
Transparency International announced the results of the 2018
Corruption Perceptions Index (the "2018 Index") on
January 29, 2019. As known, this study has been carried out and
published by Transparency International since 1995, and reflects
the public sector corruption perspective of experts,
non-governmental organisations and representatives of the business
world on a scale from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).
When compared to the 2017 results, Turkey has moved from 81 to
78 and improved 1 point by scoring 41. That being said, this
happened not due to an overall improvement; but an increase in
Turkey's point in only one of the survey areas which was not
included in the assessment last year. Therefore, this year's
slight increase in its ranking could not save Turkey from being
listed as one of the five countries which has significantly
decreased its point in the past 7 years.
