A Brief Legal & Institutional Analysis on Pollution In Black Sea Türkiye’s Case

Year 2025, Volume: 1 Issue: 8, 50 - 78

Zerrin Savaşan

Abstract

This paper is based on identifying and characterising key relevant legal&institutional framework, aiming to gather the whole together, for water and marine pollution in Türkiye. For this purpose, it firstly focuses on relevant regulations of Türkiye on Black Sea pollution at both international and regional (Black sea/EU requirements) scales. Afterwards, it discusses notable features of national framework in terms of legislative & institutional structures. As a conclusion, it makes an overall evaluation over its findings.

Keywords

Black sea, gap analysis, marine pollution, water pollution, Türkiye.

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