A conference titled “Public Ethics and Being a Public Servant” was held as part of the Ethics Week and the 100th Anniversary of the Republic, in cooperation with the Vocational School of Justice Directorate and the FEAS Department of Public Administration.

In the event, which was broadcast live on the Uşak University YouTube channel, moderated by Associate Professor Fulya Akyıldız, Director of Vocational School of Justice, Ankara University Faculty of Educational Sciences faculty member Prof. Dr. İnayet Aydın took place as a speaker.

“We all need each other's ethics

Prof. Dr. İnayet Aydın gave important information on the concept of ethics, ethical decision making, ethical dilemmas and public ethics in her speech. Starting his speech by saying "We all need each other's ethics," Prof. Dr. Aydın said, “We need the ethics of the teacher, the ethics of the doctor, the ethics of the police, and the ethics of the judge. We all need each other's ethics, public ethics is not personal, not optional, we all need to work and live with public ethics, "she underlined the importance of ethics.

Defining ethics as "the evaluation of human attitudes and behaviors from good or bad or right or wrong", Prof. Dr. İnayet Aydın while saying that ethics is an evaluation process, stated that ethics is a set of values, principles and rules that are applied while evaluating.

Giving detailed information about ethical rules, Prof. Dr. Aydın said, “The rules have three features: First, rules provide predictability and stability by reducing uncertainty, secondly, rules bring control and limitation to human behavior, and thirdly, rules make the individual free. It creates a shield effect against requests and expectations that should not be done.”

Prof. Dr. İnayet Aydın continued her words as follows: “One of the most important issues of ethics is intention - action - outcome evaluation. The law does not hold us accountable for our intentions, but ethics does. Before making a decision or taking action, it is necessary to conduct an assessment of intent - action and outcome. The most important reason for this is to be able to control the issues that motivate people to act unethically and to enable the individual to choose the right one.”

“We all need public ethics”

Defining public ethics as "the ethical principles and rules that public officials must comply with in decision-making and administrative processes while performing public service", Prof. Dr. Aydın; by saying “Public employees are trustees and should act with the responsibility of this trust”, we say that the rule of law, human rights, justice, especially corporate justice, equality, trust, respect, human dignity, merit, responsibility, impartiality, discrimination, courtesy, nepotism, transparency, accountability while defining the concepts of gift and property declaration, he explained in detail the place of these concepts in public ethics.