Workload of the Turkish FOI Council as of February 2007
I regularly obtain detailed statistics through the Turkish FOI Council (BEDK) on the behalf of my organization BilgiEdinmeHakki.Org. The below information was obtained in March 2007 following a right to information request I lodged on 26 February, 2007.
The detailed statistics obtained from the Council in March 2007 reveal the following:
➢ Total No. appeal applications to the Council between 24/05/2004 – 26/02/2007: 2,676
➢ Total Number of Council decisions: 2,475
➢ Total number of decision books: 69
➢ Number of decision books published: 28
➢ Number of unpublished decision books: 41
➢ Number of decisions published: 641 (25%)
➢ Number of unpublished decisions: 1,834 (75%)
➢ Number of applications proceeded: 2,321
➢ Number of applications non-processed: 355
➢ Total Number of successful appeals: 977
➢ Total Number of partially successful appeals: 419
➢ Total number of rejected appeals: 888
➢ Total number of appeals in which further review was necessary: 10
➢ Total number of appeal applications to be discussed by the Council: 213
I have received further statistics through the Council in August 2007, and more recently in March 2008. I will publish these on these pages within the next few weeks together with some analysis. However, as can be seen above, only 25% of the 2475 decisions of the Council were publicly made available as of February 2007 and these 641 decisions were published following pressure from BilgiEdinmeHakki.Org through a number of right to information requests.
Until March 2007, while a total of 2475 decisions were laid down by the Council, only 71 of these were made public between 2004-2006! Following yet another request made in February 2007 by BilgiEdinmeHakki.Org the Council decided to change its policy in terms of the publications of its decisions. It was revealed that the Council would start publishing all its decisions from 09 March, 2007, the day the Council’s decision was sent to BilgiEdinmeHakki.Org.
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