T.C. Orman ve Su İşleri Bakanlığı (The Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs)

The Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs, formerly structured as the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, as established on June 4, 2011, with a vision to be a respectable and leading institution ensuring the right to live in an healthy environment where fundamental requirements of existing and next generations are considered; life quality is enhanced and natural resources are managed reasonably. Working to fulfill its responsibilities from water to forestry, along with the nature protection, meteorology, erosion and desertification control; our Ministry conducts its activities with an approach giving priority to the satisfaction of the people and organisations it serves, makes every effort to ensure that a sensible, participatory, transparent, integrated and sustainable understanding of management predominates in all its applications. Our main purpose is to leave for future

generations a healthy and balanced environment and to make our world a place which is truly liveable.

Wishing you greener, healthier and more

beautiful days.