- İztuzu Beach
İztuzu Beach is a long beach near
Dalyan , in theOrtaca district ofMuğla Province in southwesternTurkey . It is world famous as one of the rare breeding grounds forloggerhead sea turtle s ("Caretta caretta") and is often called "Turtle Beach ".The greatest threat to the survival of the loggerhead sea turtle is on these sandy beaches where its life begins. This has triggered an international conservation effort that began in the 1990s. The effort to protect loggerhead sea turtle eggs and to assure a safe breeding ground for this endangered species has made international headlines. This issue is one of the most critical items on Turkey's environmental agenda. [cite web
url=http://www.seaturtle.org/mtn/archives/mtn108/mtn108p14.shtml
title=Loggerhead Turtles in the Dalyan River, Mulğa Province, Turkey, 2004
publisher=seaturtle.org
accessdate=2007-06-27] [ cite web | url = http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a713838476~db=all Abstract:| title = Monitoring Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta) Nests in Turkey Using GIS
author=Derya Maktav; Filiz Sunar; Denizhan Yalin; Ersoy Aslan |publisher=Coastal Management , Volume 28|date=April 2000 |access date=|language=English ]The two other breeding grounds for the turtles are also in Turkey, in
Adana districts ofKarataş andYumurtalık .ee also
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Dalyan
*Loggerhead sea turtle
*June Haimoff References
External links
* [http://www.ramazankoyuncu.com A photo gallery of İztuzu and region]
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