ABSTRACT
This contribution attempts to unveil the rather intricate relationship between trust and corruption by analyzing the results of a survey conducted in Turkey on the business community during October and November 2001. Our aim was to investigate whether lack of trust among business people towards the business community, as well as towards the general public, is conducive to more corruption in Turkey. As a starting point, we acknowledge that corruptive activities play a role, with varying degrees in different socio-economic conditions, in the emergence of economic and political crises. Accordingly, an inquiry into the relationship between trust and corruption is relevant in any analysis on economic crises, especially the one that hit Turkey most recently.
