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May 5th, 2008

Workload of the Turkish FOI Council as of March 2008

BilgiEdinmeHakki.Org obtained the following detailed statistics from the Council in March 2008:

  • Total No. appeal applications to the Council between 24/05/2004 – 19/02/2008: 4,042
  • Total Number of Council decisions: 3,539
  • Total number of decision books: 93
  • Number of decision books published: 38
  • Number of unpublished decision books: 55
  • Number of decisions published: 757 (21%)
  • Number of unpublished decisions: 2,782 (79%)
  • No of decisions cleared for publication but not yet published: 0
  • Number of decision books cleared for publication but not yet published: 0
  • Number of applications proceeded: 3,893
  • Number of applications non-processed: 149
  • Total Number of successful appeals: 1,453
  • Total Number of partially successful appeals: 601
  • Total number of rejected appeals: 1,391
  • Total number of appeals in which further review was necessary: 24
  • Total number of appeal applications to be discussed by the Council: 95

As can be seen above, majority of the Council decisions (2,782 (79%)) remain unpublished, an there is no “clear” indication in terms of when these decisions will be published by the Turkish Council (BEDK).

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