Legislative Amendments That Eliminate Transparency, Competition and Public Scrutiny in Tenders

12 February 2023

In Türkiye, the words most readily associated with public procurement have been “corruption” and “favouritism”. It is publicly known that practices such as corruption, irregularity, political patronage, favouritism and the sharing of public resources among particular groups were widespread in the public tenders of the 1983-2003 period, held under State Procurement Law No. 2886, which was scarcely amended during the twenty years following its entry into force in 1983.