THE COASTAL POLICY IN TURKEY
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THE COASTAL POLICY IN TURKEY Coastal areas have become very important in view of human beings since the beginning of time. They are the most important and intensely used areas settled by humans in the world. Thus, coastal resources have been under intensive pressure through out history and this situation will continue. The demands to coastal areas that have fertile potential are increasing; tourism and industrial investments cause destruction that will never recycle. Therefore, controlling coastal areas has got hard recently. And developing coastal management policies and strategies have become important issues to prevent the harmful effects of these changes. In this essay the organisation and management of the coastal policy in Turkey are evaluated by examining current situation and identifying problems resulted from inconsistencies in the coastal regulations. "Turkey is located between Europe and Asia, serves as a bridge between three continents and is surrounded on three sides by seas with substantially...

