Erdal Kayapınar, General Manager of Spatial Planning of the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, made a statement about the change in the regulation regarding the implementation of the Coastal Law. Karapınar said, “If it is determined with the new regulation, the coasts are closed to the use of the citizens, they are opened to private property, the coasts are looted, such a thing is definitely out of question.”
Erdal Kayapınar, General Manager of Spatial Planning of the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, at the press conference he held regarding the news in some media after the change in the regulation on the implementation of the Coastal Law, “If it is determined with the new regulation, the coasts are closed to the use of the citizens, opened to private property, the coasts are looted, such a thing is definitely out of question.”
Erdal Kayapınar, General Manager of Spatial Planning of the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, made a press statement in his room at the ministry after the “Regulation Amending the Regulation on the Implementation of the Coastal Law” published in the Resmi Gazete (Official Gazette) on April 16. Stating that the paragraph ‘On Changing the Coastal Line’ consists of 6 articles and they added the 7th paragraph, General Manager Akpınar said, “With this additional article, we have added a provision on how the coastline can be changed. There is nothing here related to the use of the coastal area. The determination of the coastal edge line from the seaside only in the coastal area and the area on the seaside of the coastal line is defined as the coastal area in the law as stated in the regulation. However, the arrangement we made is completely related to the coastline and includes two cases. The first of these is on the immovables belonging to the state treasury, which provides the opportunity to re-examine the coastal edge line in the treasury areas that have not been yet built and where the title deed cancellation case has not been filed yet if the Coastal Edge Line Detection Commissions object to the existing coastline.”
“If a situation arises based on scientific and technical reasons, the coastline can be changed”
Kayapınar stated that when an objection is made to the Coastal Line Commission regarding the existing coastline, it is necessary to conduct an on-site investigation based on scientific and technical reasons, “Don’t mean that, ‘The Coastal Line Detection Commission has done its investigation, the coastline will change one-hundred percent’. Do not create such a perception. If a situation arises based on scientific and technical reasons, the coastline can be changed. If it doesn’t come out, it can’t be changed anyway. It is related to the determination of the coastline in the areas declared as Culture and Tourism Conservation and Development Zone and declared as tourism centers within the scope of the Tourism Promotion Law No. 2634. Here again, it has been brought to the agenda in a limited way. If there is an objection regarding the coastline in areas where there are structures allocated in the allocated coastal areas, alliance permits and tourism operation certificates are present, a re-examination opportunity arises by the Coastal Edge Line Detection Commission established by the governorship, if it is not based on scientific and technical justification, there is no question of changing a coastline here either.”
“-The coasts are closed to the use of citizens, they are opened to private property-, such a matter is definitely out of question.”
Explaining that the Coastal Edge Line Detection Commissions were established by the governorship and that the commission was determined by professional specialists with expertise, Kayapınar, General Manager of Spatial Planning, reminded us that with this result, it is out of the question for the commission to change the coastline according to demand. Adding that the coastal area and the coastal edge line have very different meanings from each other, Akpınar noted the following about the discussions after the “Regulation on Amending the Regulation on the Implementation of the Coastal Law”:
“It is the current objection to the coastline regarding these two areas that we have mentioned. If an objection is not made, it is out of the question for this to be brought to the agenda. In case of an objection, it is necessary to re-determine the coastline by evaluating it in favor of the treasury and favor of the public, within the framework of scientific and technical reasons. What is mixed is: ‘coastal edge line detected, coastal uses changed’. There is no such thing. If the coastal edge line is determined with this new regulation, the coasts are closed to the use of the citizens, opened to private property, the coasts are looted, such a thing is definitely out of question. There are studies that we have done and carried out by the coastal edge line commissions for years. There has been no realization of demand in any of them.”
