On 23 January 2020, Transparency International announced the
much-awaited results of the 2019 Corruption Perceptions Index (the
"CPI 2019"), which reflects the perception of country
experts, non-governmental organisations and representatives of the
business world of corruption in public sector. The CPI 2019 scores
180 countries and territories on a scale from 0 (highly corrupt) to
100 (very clean).
The results, unfortunately, did not come as too much of a
surprise for Turkey as its continuous fall in the last few
years' CPIs signalled a sharp fall already. Turkey scored 39
this year with a loss of 2 points compared to the last year which
eventually led to a significant decrease of 10 points since 2012
and dropped to 91 from 78 at the ranking.
