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Recent Activities Ethics Training Programme
[14
October 2008, Strasbourg] The
first ethics training activity of
TYEC will take place in a Turkish
public sector training company,
TUSSIDE (Turkish Institute for
International Management) during
19-24 October 2008. 25 trainers
candidates from central government
ministries and various public bodies
have been selected to participate in
the programme. The programme
involves the completion and
publication of the training package,
the training of the selected
trainers on how to train and the use
of the training package. The
training programme will be
supervised by a Turkish and
International Short Term Expert and
will involve a pilot exercise. The
training is intended to: 1st TYEC Steering Committee Meeting[29 September 2008, Strasbourg] The 1st Project Steering Committee Meeting took place in Ankara on 23 June 2008. As a result, the Project Workplan was slightly up-dated and adapted to the current needs and priorities. The meeting brought together representatives of the Council of Ethics for Public Service (the main counterpart institution), the Ministries, the European Commission Delegation to Turkey and the Council of Europe. TYEC Study Visit: Members of the Council of Ethics visited partner institutions in Dublin
[29
September 2008, Strasbourg]
Within the framework
of the TYEC project a study visit
took place between 9 and 13 June
2008 with the participation of the
members of the Council of Ethics,
the TYEC Long Term Advisor and the
Secretariat of the Council of
Europe. The aim of the study visit
was to exchange view and experience
with the similar institutions in
order to review and increase the
working procedures of the Council of
Ethics. In this respect, the project
had already identified four EU
Institutions: the Audit Commission,
the UK Commission on Standards in
Public Life, the Standards Board for
England, and the Irish Government's
Standards in Public Office
Commission. During the course of the
study, the Council of Ethics was
offered perspectives from these
institutions, including: Conference on International Standards on the Principals of Ethics[27 May 2008, Ankara, Turkey] The Council of Europe is organising within the framework of the TYEC project and in co-operation with the Ethics Council of Turkey, an international conference entitled “The International Standards on the Principles of Ethics” in Ankara, Turkey. The conference aims at comparing the practices of other homologue institutions and sharing good practices. It will focus on the Practical Value of Ethics Training, Infrastructure, Useful Tools in the United Nations system, and the adoption of the Ethics Framework in the European Union member States.
The conference event will start at
9.00 a.m. on Tuesday 27 May 2008 at
the Iller Bankasi Premises in
Ankara. The Press is invited to
attend the opening session from 9.15
a.m. to 10.00 a.m. The Start-up Conference
[7
February 2008,
Ankara, Turkey]
The TYEC project Start-up Conference took place on 7 February 2008 at Hilton Hotel, Ankara. With over 100 attendees, and full media coverage, the Conference brought together high-level representatives of line Ministries, different groups of civil society, media, international organizations and Embassies. The
purpose of the Start-up conference
is to present the project, its
objectives, outputs and have its workplan
adopted.
The Start-up Conference was addressed by the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan; Prof. Dr Bilal Eryilmaz, Ethics Council Chairperson, Ms Margaret Killerby, Director of Co-operation, Council of Europe; and HE Amb. Marc Pierini, European Commission Delegation to Turkey. The workplan
finalised during the Start-up
workshops was adopted by all
participants at the end of the
Conference. The Start-up Workshops
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to address the launching event of a new anti-corruption project in Turkey
[04 February 2008,Strasbourg]
The Council of Europe is launching a new technical
co-operation project entitled “Ethics for the Prevention
of Corruption in Turkey” (TYEC). The two-year project
will also help implement the recommendations made to
Turkey by the Council’s Group of States against
Corruption (GRECO). The project is 90% funded by the
European Commission and 10% by the Council of Europe. It
will be implemented by the Council of Europe’s Economic
Crime Division.
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