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111213
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There is no doubt that corruption in Turkey has a continuing and pervasive presence, with less evidence that it is diminishing and more evidence that corruption continues to be embedded in the political and administrative structures. On the other hand, it is also clear that Turkey has substantial legal and institutional means to address corruption. Part of the reason that they do not appear to have significantly impacted on corruption may be the countervailing influences of enduring cultural traditions within the public sector and among citizens. The article, in taking an overview of the articles in the Issue, emphasizes the role of awareness and training in ethics for both citizens and public officials as a central and integral aspect of any continuing reform agenda.
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111212
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The survey aims to explore the attitudes of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, pharmaceutical representatives, and patients from two provinces of Turkey, Nevsehir and Istanbul, in context of ethical conduct within the health services and the relation between the health services and its suppliers, particularly the pharmaceutical industry. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used together. The questionnaire interviews were conveyed to a total of 1540 people and eight focus group discussions to 85 people during April-May 2009. The most common unethical acts in medical practice are "knife payment"/additional informal payment, self-referral, patient discrimination, discrediting other physicians, unnecessary tests-interventions-prescriptions, accepting promotion and demand for personal-household goods, preferring products that come along with promotion, getting cash per box, sponsored vacations in the form of medical congress. Eliminating monetary relationship between the physician and the patient; discouraging close contact of the physician and the healthcare institution with the pharmaceutical industry; implementing commissions in hospitals to supervise physicians for preventing patient discrimination and unnecessary interventions within the framework of good clinical practices; building a supreme board of medical journalism to prevent artificial demand for medical interventions and creation of false hopes, are the proposed precautions for corruption in health services.
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111209
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2012.
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This article addresses perceptions of employees and citizens about ethics in service provision in Turkey and their impact upon attitudes of both parties against unethical behavior in title-service workplaces. The case study was conducted in a traditional, large public organization, the General Directorate of Titles and Cadastral Affairs. Data for this study were gathered through a personnel survey and a citizen survey. The findings show that although employees and citizens seem to have internalized business ethics, there are some deficiencies in putting ethical principles into reality in the workplace because of reasons such as lack of ethical climate in the workplace and conceptual ambiguity about some unethical behaviors in both citizens' and employees' perceptions.
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111210
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Ethical issues of urban planning in Turkey are understudied. This article briefly examines eight possible sources of unethical behavior, decision and policy in Turkish urban planning. This analysis of ethical problems and sources of physical urban planning focuses on the local government level. This study focuses on harmonizing Turkish and international literature on local politics, urban planning, urbanization, planning profession and planning ethics literature with the perceptions, attitudes and conditions of planning actors based on interviews and survey conducted in selected Turkish municipalities and SPAs in 2008-09 as part of a major EU-funded public sector ethics project in Turkey. The roles of interest groups, conditions of planners and decision-makers on urban planning and planning ethics are especially scrutinized. The role of economic factors such as land rent, insufficiency of housing stock and economic transformation of Turkey play a prime role and have triggered effects on other sources of issues in planning ethics in Turkey. Institutional, strategic and legal dimensions of planning ethics in Turkey are also questioned and found that new measures on these dimensions should be taken to combat unethical urban planning decision-making and implementation.
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111211
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There is no limit to the potential of individuals and organizations behaving unethically. Unfortunately, this potential is too frequently felt, in that unethical organizational practices are very commonplace. This article explores what accounts for unethical actions in public organizations, more specifically, why public servants commit those unethical practices from the points of view of employees and citizens, taking The Turkish Customs Authority as a case study. It presents the results of a survey of practicing employees of a Turkish public organization and service using citizens. The survey aimed to explore the perceptions of both employees and service users on the reasons of unethical behavior in Turkish custom service workplaces.
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111208
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2012.
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Accession of Turkey to the European Union (EU) has brought a focus on issues of corruption and public ethics. The various reviews have emphasized that these issues are both long-standing and continuing. Given that such issues have been concerning the EU both before and after the accession of other countries, the current Turkish context is assessed in terms of laws, institutions and strategies. The article argues that Turkey is well-served in terms of laws, institutions and strategies, but that there are issues relating to the continuing state tradition and socio-political and administrative culture, to implementation of laws and the effectiveness of institutions, as well as the connectedness of the overall anti-corruption and public ethics approaches. In particular, the article notes that the question of changing current tradition and culture are central to Turkey's progress in meeting European concerns and expectations.
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