Audit Quality and Integrity Investigation in Türkiye

FSC has commissioned Assurance Services International (ASI) to carry out an independent investigation into audit quality and integrity in Türkiye. The goal is to better understand how well FSC audits are addressing integrity risks. This investigation is a part of a broader FSC initiative to strengthen and improve the overall quality of auditing in the FSC system.

FSC invites all stakeholders to share audit quality and integrity concerns related to Türkiye to ASI through the incident submission platform here, before 31 August 2025.

For this investigation, ASI will request all current certification bodies, auditors and certificate holders in Türkiye to submit information relevant for this investigation. ASI will look into stakeholder concerns about certification/accreditation fraud, violation of workers’ rights, unethical behaviour of certification bodies, and risks associated with transfer of certificates. ASI will also consider analytical papers, such as corruption related risk assessments, and recent media coverage about wood fraud.
more at: https://fsc.org/en/newscentre/integrity-and-disputes/audit-quality-and-integrity-investigation-in-turkiye

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