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Sent: 12 November 2003 18:27
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Subject: Update: New FOI Law in Turkey Posted
freedominfo.org update, November 12, 2003
New FOI Law in Turkey Posted, Campaign Underway for Implementation
http://www.freedominfo.org/news/turkey/index.htm
Turkey joined the more than 50 countries with statutory rights of access to
government information when the Turkish parliament voted unanimously on
October 9 to enact a Right to Information Law. With the approval of
President
Ahmet Necdet Sezer, the new law was officially published on October 24,
2003.
Posted today are the English and Turkish texts of the law, and a link to a
newly-formed Campaign for Freedom of Information in Turkey.
The key dynamic in the government's drafting the law was Turkey's aspiration
to join the European Union, most of whose members (except for Germany and
Luxembourg) guarantee access to government information by law. But the new
law
says little or nothing about implementation, for which the Prime Ministry is
drafting regulations, or about definition of terms like "secrecy," for which
the Justice Ministry is drafting new secrecy legislation.
Dr. Yaman Akdeniz, law lecturer at the University of Leeds and an organizer
of
the new Campaign for Freedom of Information in Turkey, remarked that
"Although
it is a very important first step towards openness and transparency, the
limits of this new right are not clearly defined by the new law... So it
remains to be seen how transparent the government will be in Turkey.
The text of the new law in Turkish and English is available here:
http://www.freedominfo.org/news/turkey/index.htm
For more information, see the Campaign for Freedom of Information in Turkey:
http://www.bilgilenmehakki.org.
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