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In the Blue Flag process, places that are found to meet all the criteria are entitled to receive the
Blue Flag for a period of one year with the approval of the national jury and then the internati-
onal jury.

As can be seen in Graph 31, the number of Blue Flags in Türkiye increased steadily between 1994
and 2024, reaching 567 beaches, 27 marinas, 18 tourism boats and 9 individual yachts by 2024. As
of 2024, Türkiye ranked 3 in terms of the number of Blue Flag beaches among the 50 FEE mem-
rd
ber countries with the Blue Flag scheme, with 567 beaches, after Spain (639) and Greece (625).

In order to ensure the necessary harmonisation with the Bathing Water Directive 2006/7/EC of
the European Union, the By-law on the Management of Bathing Water Quality was published
in the Official Gazette dated 25.09.2019 and numbered 30899 and entered into force. Within
the scope of Article 16 of the By-law titled “Determination of bathing water profiles”, the profile
document for each swimming area must be prepared every 4 years. Bathing water profiles are
also among the documents that are mandatory for each beach within the scope of the Blue Flag
application.

In this context, profile documents for swimming areas have been prepared for 1,436 swimming
areas in Türkiye and opened to citizen access at plaj.csb.gov.tr in the Swimming Area Informati-
on System in order to inform our citizens about swimming areas.
Graph 31 Number of Blue Flags in Türkiye by Years (1994 -2024) (Ministry of Culture and Tourism, 2024)
600 567
551
519 531
500 486
436 444 454 459 463
400 383 397
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300 286
258
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200 174 192
127 140 151
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100 78
46 64
12 9 5 9 15 25 10 11 12 11 12 11 12 12 14 14 13 14 14 17 19 21 22 22 21 22 22 22 22 22 24 23 27
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0 8 6 4 6 9 12 13 13 12 14 12 13 10 15 7 10 15 14 18
1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Beaches Marinas Yachts Tourism Boats Total Number of Blue Flags
It is aimed to further increase the number of Blue Flags in Türkiye thanks to the effective work
carried out by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Ministry of Environment, Urbanizati-
on and Climate Change.

C.1.3.2.2. Environmentally Friendly Accommodation Facility Certificate (Green Star)

According to the statistical data announced by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, as of
25.07.2024, the number of Environmentally Friendly Accommodation Facilities is 436 and the
number of rooms is 132,822 and the number of beds is 284,021.

Since 1993, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism has been awarding Eco-Friendly Establishment
Certificate (Pine Symbol) to accommodation facilities within the scope of sustainable tourism.

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