An ethical foreign policy that has been examined and found lacking. The UK is also in breach of OECD guide lines for such investments. Following pressure from environmentalists, the UK Department of Industry has conducted an environmental impact assessment. The conclusions have proved too damning and the DTI has commissioned a second study. FoE is contemplating a legal challenge to force the DTI to release the original report.
Turkey is rated as high risk for investment.
On an international scale of 0-100, Turkey rates 38.6, lower than India, Mexico, Brazil or the Philippines. The Ilisu Dam violates World Bank guidelines, violates OECD resettlement guidelines, and contravenes the core principles of the 1997 UN Convention on the Non-Navigational Uses of Transboundary Waterways.