The representatives of the Coordination Group, Communication Group and Internal Audit Group have gathered in Antalya for three-days meeting marathon on the dates of February 26-27, 2017 in order to form the new structure of the Checks and Balances Network and determine the intergroup duties and responsibilities. Müjgan Suver, who is in the Checks and Balances Network on behalf of the Marmara Group Foundation, was elected in the Coordination Group as a representative of the Judicial

Reform Group. At the meeting that took place in Antalya, Müjgan Suver, Şakir Gürel and Gamze Pamuk were elected as representatives of the Checks and Balances Network.

The demands that came from the members of the Checks and Balances Network, the changing political environment of Turkey, the increase in the numbers of the members of the network, the fact that the members wanted to contribute more to works of the network by including more of their areas of expertise, the aims of creating more impact on the works of the network, increasing the participation and protection of the integrity by working together necessitated the change in the structure of the network. A new structure model has been worked on in order for all of the members to be in different decision-making mechanisms, be more involved in the activities.

In this model, instead of the structural working groups such as relationships with the decision makers, localization and expansion, relationships with the media, strategical reform groups that can prepare policy recommendations on the subjects of the checks and balances and institutional reforms have been transferred to. The Coordination Group in the old structure has been preserved yet new structures such as internal audit group, communication group, and editorial team have been established in order to support the coordination group, to guide, and share its authorities. Hence, instead of a single decision-making mechanism, a new system in which the responsibilities are shared and the actors audit each other, which befits the values which the checks and balances network defends has been established.