3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Budapest, Macaristan, 19 - 23 Ekim 2017, ss.119-120
Abstract:
The Turkey is in a great position which has the cultural and commercial gates that connected the Asian
and Europe continents. And also has the Turkish Straits sea area which is consist of Strait of the
Istanbul (Bosphorus), Strait of the Canakkale (Dardanelle) and also Sea of The Marmara. The Straits of
Istanbul and Strait of Canakkale are connecting the Black Sea with the Aegean Sea through by Sea of
The Marmara. From the history, the Turkish Straits has great importance not only geopolitics but also
strategic and geographic situations. Also rapidly increasing importance for maritime transportation,
especially international energy transportation. Petrolium, LPG, LNG, gas, oil and oil products
transportation has high level risk management about maritime transportation and marine
environment cleaning at the Turkish Straits Sea Area. The Turkish Straits have been governed by the
Montreux convention, since the 1936. Beside legal binders, local traffic, innocent and transit passages
have really great parameters such as safety navigation and ballast management for maritime
transportation and environmental management. With all these parameters and circumstances, need
to deeply survey at the Turkish Strait about marine and environment sciences. These results could
have chance to not only making environmental planning and management but also maritime
transportation safety and decrease marine pollution, protect all the straits shoreline by the national
and international regulations. With this working, try to explain the current effects and their surveys
importance for maritime transportation and environmental management, planning at the Turkish
Strait.