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MINISTER KURUM
On behalf of the Ministry of
Environment, Urbanization,
INSPECTS

and Climate Change
Title Holder INSPECTS
Burak DEMİRALP
İZMİT GULF GULF
Deputy Minister İZMİT

General Publication Director
BOTTOM
İsmail YILMAZ BOTTOM
Head of Education and Publication
SED
Department SEDIMENT IMENT
Publication Consultant
CLEANUP
Prof. Dr. A. Menaf TURAN CLEANUP
Okan BAHRİOĞLU
PROJECTJECT
Responsible Editorial Affairs Manager PRO
İshak ÖZEN

Editor The first phase of the

Zeynep KASA “Project for the Cleanup,
Dewatering, and Disposal
News of Bottom Sediment in the

Ülkü Miray DOĞRU Eastern Basin of the İzmit
Gulf”, launched on May 2,
Visual Director 2023, has been successful-
Meryem TAŞDEMİR ly completed. Minister of
Environment, Urbanization,
Redaction and Climate Change Murat

Berna ŞAHİN Kurum recently visited the
site to inspect the second
Photograph phase of the project.
Çağrı AKKAYA “We are implementing
Halid BAYKAL
Furkan DİKİCİ a project here that will
Mansur MUTLU serve as an example
for all of Türkiye.”
Design

Selim AKYÜZ Minister Kurum, who received
information from project of-
Contact ficials at the construction site,
said, "Together with the Kocaeli
Ministry of Environment, Metropolitan Municipality, we
Urbanization, and Climate Change have launched one of the world's
Mustafa Kemal Neighborhood largest environmental projects. In
2082. Street No:52 the first phase, we disposed of 1.1
Çankaya / Ankara / Türkiye million cubic meters of bottom
0 312 410 10 00 sludge, as we see here, by separating
the sludge from the seawater using
Type solutions. We have come a long way
from a truly heartbreaking situa-
Periodic Publication tion. This (result) is very valuable.
September – 2025 God willing, with the completion

of the second and third phases, we
ISSN will have completed this project in
2651-4842 72% of Wastewater is Treated in Izmit Bay, which will serve as an
Biological Treatment Plants example to the world, and we will
have presented it as a gift to our
Emphasizing that bottom sludge cleaning was implemen- brothers and sisters in Izmit. When
ted during efforts to combat mucilage, Minister Kurum it is finished, our young people, our
said that the Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality had fulfil- children, our citizens will be able
led its obligations related to the ‘Marmara Sea Protection to feel the deep blue beauty of the
Action Plan’: As part of the fight against mucilage, we have Izmit Bay at every moment. We are
signed a protocol with all our municipalities bordering the carrying out a project here that will
Marmara Sea, and within the framework of this protocol, be an example for all of Türkiye.
we have assigned certain responsibilities and obligations The Golden Horn was in this state.
to our municipalities and ministries. I would like to thank With this kind of work, we hope
ZERO the Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality here. They have ful- it will be cleaner than the Golden

WASTE filled all the tasks we assigned them that day to the letter. Horn,“ he said. Minister Kurum
They worked in harmony with us on the bottom sludge
cleaning. On the other hand, they increased the number of pointed out that the ecosystem in
treatment plants to 23. Seventy-two percent of wastewater the sea has already come to life
is treated in biological treatment plants. Hopefully, within thanks to the work, saying, ”We
the framework of our work with the Provincial Bank, have seen creatures we have never
100 percent, that is, all of Kocaeli's wastewater, will now seen before returning to the Gulf.
undergo advanced biological treatment, and we will leave a Fish and dolphins have started to
much cleaner Gulf for future generations. live in the Gulf again.

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