Full Length Research Paper

The importance of marine cadastre for Turkey

Faik Ahmet Sesli* and Gul Uslu

Department of Geomatics Engineering, Ondokuz Mayıs University, 55139 Samsun, Turkey.

*Corresponding author. E-mail: fasesli@omu.edu.tr.

Accepted 13 April, 2010

 Abstract

Human’s have used the sea for nourishing, getting raw material, advancing technology and providing transportation throughout history. The society have been destroying the eco balance as a result of the manufacturing technologies they use and demolishing many facilities of the future in the long run in an anxiety to earn their keep in the short run. The marine environment, which is the most convenient environment for pollution, has been rapidly losing the feature of being the food store of the people in the future. The pollution of the seas is not only dangerous for the future, but also for today biologically. The pollution goes through food chain and destroys all creatures, including the human beings. The fact that rapid population increase, pollution and annual precipitation average is lower than the average of the world, it requires the usage of the current resources more carefully and taking all necessary precautions against pollution immediately. Since a variety of the activities included in these zones are not renewable and reproducible, it has emerged the necessity to take these zones, that change constantly under control. The limitation and inspection of these various activities and demands have revealed the obligation of a registration. All these reasons explained above have brought the concept of marine cadastre forward in many developed countries, particularly the United States of America, Canada and Australia. In Turkey, on the other hand, examining the regulation about coastal and marine zones, it is indicated that the seas and the coasts are under the command and austerity of the government and that there would be no personal property in question in these zones. In this study, the concept of marine cadastre in the developed countries has been explained in general terms and examining the activities in the coastal and marine zones in Turkey, a platform related to the condition whether this concept is necessary for Turkey or not has been tried to be built.

Key words: Coast, sea, land property, cadastre, marine cadastre.