{"id":6672,"date":"2018-05-18T13:49:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T10:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=6672"},"modified":"2018-05-18T13:49:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T10:49:47","slug":"turkey-ranks-third-in-blue-flag-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/turkey-ranks-third-in-blue-flag-beaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey ranks third in Blue Flag beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6674\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6674\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6674\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/blue-flag-beaches-turkey.jpg\" alt=\"Turkey ranks third in Blue Flag beaches\" width=\"610\" height=\"353\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/blue-flag-beaches-turkey.jpg 841w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/blue-flag-beaches-turkey-340x196.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/blue-flag-beaches-turkey-768x444.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/blue-flag-beaches-turkey-519x300.jpg 519w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6674\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turkey ranks third in Blue Flag beaches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Exclusive international eco-label given to beaches and marinas which meet certain environmental standards \/ Turkey ranks third in Blue Flag beaches<\/h2>\n<p>Turkey with its 459 Blue Flag-certified beaches has ranked third among 50 countries, the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey had 140 beaches certified Blue Flag in 2002. The country joined the program in 1994 with only 12 Blue Flag beaches, according to the 2018 list by Copenhagen-based Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Blue Flag&#8221; is an exclusive eco-label awarded by the nonprofit FEE to beaches and marinas that meet certain criteria such as water quality, environmental education and information, environmental management, and safety.<\/p>\n<p>It is an international program currently being implemented in 50 countries around the world including European countries, South Africa, Morocco, Tunisia, New Zealand, Canada and in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>According to the list, Turkey has 22 Blue Flag marinas.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive international eco-label given to beaches and marinas which meet certain environmental standards \/ Turkey ranks third in Blue Flag beaches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}