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Turkey has ranked 109th of 126 countries on the World Justice Project’s (WJP’s) Rule of Law Index 2019, placing the country some eight places below where it stood on last year’s edition of the index.
Its position is the worst of any country in the Eastern Europe & Central Asia region and comes despite last July’s ending of the two-year-long state of emergency that followed the attempted coup against the Erdogan administration. Despite the lifting of the emergency regime, critics say beefed up central and local government powers give officials far too much scope for abusing rights. Turkey, for instance, has become the world’s biggest jailer of journalists.
Turkey’s category rankings were as follows: Constraints on government powers 123rd; Absence of corruption 57th; Open government 94th; Fundamental rights 122nd; Order and security 96th; Regulatory enforcement 106th; Civil justice 96th; Criminal justice 85th.
The WJP Rule of Law Index is billed as the world's leading source for original data on the rule of law. The 2019 edition was partly based on more than 120,000 household surveys and 3,800 expert surveys worldwide to measure the rule on law based on the experiences and perceptions of the general public and in-country experts.
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