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SUMMARY: Turkey has got 62.6 mil citizens, and its total area is 77 mil.
hectare of which 20.7 mill, hectare (26.7 %) goes to the forests and forest
lands. About 98 % of the forests are owned by the state, 1.5 % of the forests are
in the private ownership and 0.5 % of the forests are public forests. Regarding
the capabilities of producing quality wood, about 50.9 % of the forests are forests
with good quality, and 49.1 % of the forests are forests with bad quality degraded
forests. The share of the coniferous species 54.4 % (pine 38.5 %,
cedar 9 %,fir & spruce 8.8 %, cedar 3.5 % and the other coniferous 0.5 %).
The share of the broadleaves species is 45.6 % (oaks 25.9 %, beech 8.5 %, other
hard broadleaves species 4.8 % and soji broadleaves species 3.9 %).
Nearly 34 % of the forests are coppices; 64 % are high even-aged forests, and
only 2 % of the forests are selective managed. Average annual felling volume
(related to the ten years average) is 22 046 000 m! of the wood (5 081 000 m´
are logs, 3 776 000 m3 is other industrial wood and 13 189 000 m3 is fuel wood.
Forests are managed by the General Directorate of Forestry which is the part
of the Ministry of Forestry since 1983. Production, technical, technological
and expert resources that Turkish forestry has got are shown in this paper. The
basic activities of the forestry are described by using organisational scheme of
General Directorate of Forestry. Fundamental attitudes, topics of the forestry
politics and management of the forest ecosystems are also shown. Advantages
and disadvantages of the Turkish forestry have been put down, together with
the position of the Turkish forestry in the area of European and World forestry.


Key words: Turkey, Forestry, Forest resources, General Directorate of
Forestry