Today, public servants in Turkey, like in many countries around the world, face major challenges, including an increasingly demanding citizenry, intensifying globalization processes, rapid developments in the use of information and communication technologies, and the rise in the number and...

The Turkish national educational system has long been criticized for operating inefficiently and ineffectively. The Turkish Ministry of National Education (MEB) is, in fact, at the heart of the problem. Its critiques charge that the MEB has a cumbersome, centralist and inefficient organizational...

The existence of corruption in Turkish political-bureaucratic system as a pervasive, entrenched, and enduring problem has long been an “open secret” for anybody involved even scantly in the public affairs of the country. In this chapter, we are interested in: a) pointing out the need for...