Abstract

Recently, investigations upon e-government applications and the right to access information had given rise to legal developments. The most important of them is the Law Pertaining to Rights for Information Access being promulgated in 2004. The underlying aim of the law is to provide private persons and legal entities to get the related government services in a more correct, standardised, fast ways-and-means under equal rights. Actually, ever since the applications had started according to the Law, a sharp increase in public interest in accessing information had been registered, as can clearly be viewed from the yearly reports of Turkish Grand National Assembly. The study attempts to analyse the mentioned increase, as well as the rising interest of international organisations to Turkish egovernment activities.

Keywords: Law Pertaining to Rights for Information Access, e- Government, Applications, Turkey

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Copyright (c) 2008 The author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.

How to Cite

Anameriç, H. (2008). An Evaluation of the Law Pertaining to Rights for Information Access and the e-Government Activities in Turkey during the Period of 2004 – 2006. Information World, 9(1), 225-229. https://doi.org/10.15612/BD.2008.335