Turkey became a party to the Ramsar Convention in 1994 and has since made effective progress on the legislation and administration for the protection of wetlands. We assessed the provisions of the Ramsar Convention with Turkish legislation by using a five-points scoring chart. We determined that there is 64,7% compliance rate among the examined legislation. Of 156 countries, Turkey is one of the best in adapting international commitments to its own domestic laws. Ramsar Convention’s effectiveness on the judicial decisions was evaluated by analyzing 50 Council of State decisions from 1994 to 2020 in the terms of whether the Ramsar Convention was clearly referred or not. The rate of reference to the Ramsar Convention in judicial decisions is as low as 28%. However, in all the decisions that do refer to the Ramsar Convention, the court ruled in favor of the protection of the ecosystem. It has been determined that investment projects and changes in plans (zoning, landscaping, etc.) occupy an important place among the lawsuits. Considering the number of cases subject to litigation, we determined that wetlands, which have priority to be protected according to the Ramsar Convention, are among the places under pressure.

土耳其于1994年成为《拉姆萨尔公约》的缔约国，此后在保护湿地的立法和行政管理方面取得了有效进展。我们使用五点评分表评估了土耳其立法对《拉姆萨尔公约》的规定。我们确定，已审查的法规中有64.7％的达标率。在156个国家中，土耳其是将国际承诺调整为适用其本国法律的最佳国家之一。通过分析是否明确提及《拉姆萨尔公约》，分析了1994年至2020年50个国务委员会的裁决，评估了《拉姆萨尔公约》在司法裁决方面的效力。司法裁决中提及《拉姆萨尔公约》的比率低至28％。但是，在涉及拉姆萨尔公约的所有决定中，法院裁定支持保护生态系统。已经确定投资项目和计划变更（分区，美化环境等）在诉讼中占有重要地位。考虑到提起诉讼的案件数量，我们确定受到《拉姆萨尔公约》优先保护的湿地属于受压地区。