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Map 30 Integrated Coastal Zone Plans in Türkiye (MoEUCC, 2024)

INTEGRATED COASTAL ZONE PLANS
APPROVED PLANS
PLANS TO BE APPROVED AFTER REVISION

G.2.3.1. International Obligations in Integrated Coastal Zone Plans

Blue growth emerged as a long-term strategy with the “Sustainable Growth for the Marine and
Maritime Sector” statement of the European Commission in 2012, which included oceans and
seas on its agenda together with the sustainable development agenda (SDG 14) and blue eco-
nomy concepts put into practice by the United Nations. Within the framework of the Protocol
on Integrated Coastal Zone Management in the Mediterranean (ICZM) to the Barcelona Con-
vention, which Türkiye has signed, activities are carried out as the National Focal Point within
the Priority Action Program Activity Center (PAP/RAC), the National Focal Point of the Bucharest
Convention Integrated Coastal Zone Management Advisory Group, and the Primary Focal Point
of the European Environment Agency (EEA) for Land Use and Spatial Planning.

The General Directorate of Spatial Planning prepares Integrated Coastal Zone Plans that address
the Turkish coasts with their interaction areas, all sectoral activities and plans, social and eco-
nomic issues with a holistic approach, and that guide zoning plan decisions by covering spatial
targets, strategies and action proposals and management plans in a way that will ensure a ba-
lance between protection and use, in accordance with Article 102 of the Presidential Decree No.
1 on the Presidency.

Integrated Coastal Zone Plans are defined as a planning tool that provides for the guidance and
support of local expectations and demands in coastal areas with national investment programs,
while bringing solution-oriented innovative approaches to overlapping jurisdictions in coastal
areas, reconciling coastal stakeholders and accelerating investment processes, thus reshaping
the institutional decision-making processes of Türkiye’s coastal area planning and establishing
the balance between environmental health and economic development when evaluated in ter-
ms of the land side of the coast. As of 2023, Integrated Coastal Zone Planning studies of 74% of
Türkiye’s coasts have been completed within the framework of strategy documents and plans.

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