Country profile - TUR

Corruption in Turkey

12 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 64.6 (2022).

Grand: 48.4 Petty: 72.4 Latest observed: 2018

Turkey: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Turkey is South East Anatolia (Adiyaman, Diyarbakir, Gaziant (56.2/100), and the least corrupt is West Marmara (Balikesir, Canakkale, Edirne, Kirkla (71.2/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 12 regions are ranked below.

  • In 2022, Turkey's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 64.6/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
  • Most corrupt region: South East Anatolia (Adiyaman, Diyarbakir, Gaziant (SCI 56.2/100, 2022).
  • Least corrupt region: West Marmara (Balikesir, Canakkale, Edirne, Kirkla (SCI 71.2/100, 2022).
  • Grand corruption (SGCI): 48.4/100; petty corruption (SPCI): 72.4/100 (last directly observed in 2018).
  • Trend: Turkey's SCI moved from 67.6/100 (1995) to 64.6/100 (2022).
  • Coverage: 12 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Turkey compares: SCD vs. the CPI and World Bank

The Subnational Corruption Index is scored 0–100 on the same orientation as Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index (higher = cleaner). The difference: the CPI and the World Bank measure the perceptions of experts and business executives and report one national number, while the SCI is built from what ordinary households perceive and experience — and it breaks Turkey into 12 regions.

Index Latest Scale Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) 64.6 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI 36 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Experts & business surveys
World Bank Control of Corruption -0.5 ≈ −2.5 to 2.5 Aggregated expert sources

Most recent year — SCI 2022, CPI 2022, CCI 2022. The SCD also publishes region-anchored SUB-CPI and SUB-CCI series so the CPI and World Bank measures can be read at the regional level.

SCI trajectory - 1995-2022

Country-level mean of the Subnational Corruption Index, averaged across all 12 regions. Higher values mean cleaner governance (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt).

72 63 1995 2022

Source: SCD v1.0 (Comprehensive Dataset). Years where the panel was filled by inter/extrapolation are included in the country mean.

Regions (12)

Each row is a sub-national region with its latest SCI score. Click into any row for the region's full time series.

# Region GDL code Years Latest SCI
1 South East Anatolia (Adiyaman, Diyarbakir, Gaziant TURr112 1995-2022 56.2
2 Central East Anatolia (Bingol, Bitlis, Elazig, Hak TURr111 1995-2022 57.4
3 North East Anatolia (Agri, Erzincan, Erzurum, Kars TURr110 1995-2022 59.3
4 Central Anatolia (Kayseri, Kirsehir, Nevsehir, Nig TURr107 1995-2022 60.6
5 Istanbul TURr101 1995-2022 60.9
6 Aegean (Afyon, Aydin, Denizli, Izmir, Kutahya, Man TURr103 1995-2022 65.6
7 West Black Sea (Amasya, Cankiri, Corum, Kastamonu, TURr108 1995-2022 65.7
8 Mediterranean (Adana, Antalya, Burdur, Hatay, Ispa TURr106 1995-2022 69
9 East Black Sea (Artvin, Giresun, Gumushane, Ordu, TURr109 1995-2022 69.5
10 West Anatolia (Ankara, Konya, Karaman) TURr105 1995-2022 69.9
11 East Marmara (Bilecik, Bolu, Bursa, Duzce, Eskiseh TURr104 1995-2022 70.1
12 West Marmara (Balikesir, Canakkale, Edirne, Kirkla TURr102 1995-2022 71.2

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Per-country panel slice in CSV format. Columns: iso, country, gdl, region, year, sci. Direct dataset citations should reference the Figshare deposit (see How to cite).

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