Environmental conditions such as the climate,
topography and the characteristics of habitation vary in
the coastal regions of Turkey. Therefore, several
problems appear in the applications related to coastal
planning. In addition, Turkey has cultural and historical
merits, especially natural attractiveness. So, various
investors prefer these areas. However, this situation
causes many environmental problems in coastal areas. In
the coastal region of Turkey, sea and water pollution
prevented the public from accessing the coastline. Also,
contradictions and insufficiencies in legal arrangements,
coastal erosions, filling the coasts with the aim of
acquiring property, unbalanced construction that caused
unplanned urban areas, scattered buildings,
environmental buildings, destroying water sources,
coastal region having insufficient social and technical
infrastructure, uncontrolled urbanization and insufficient
service appearance, unbalanced developments in coastal
areas that result in land occupation and filling to obtain
land parts that violates the public benefit prevented the
public from accessing the coastline (Kuleli, 1998; Sesli
and Aydinoglu, 2003).