Hunting Tourism

Hunting in Turkey is among the most popular activities there since the geographic structure of the country along with its rich plant cover and wild life is appropriate for development of hunt tourism. Hunting grounds, which will be opened to hunting tourism with considering the hunting animals potential of Turkey, are determined and announced by Ministry of Forests.

Foreign tourist hunters can hunt with Hunting Tourism Permission Certificate, issued to authorized tourist agencies by the Ministry of Forest. Also, foreign tourist hunters can only hunt species within hunting grounds approved by Ministry of Forest. Bear, hook horned mountain goat wild goat, wild boar, lynx, wolf, jackal, fox, from big hunting animals, are served against its value to usage of national and foreign hunters under hunting tourism title. Hunting of hunting animals except these can only be possible within special hunting grounds. Wild animals allowed for hunting in Turkey are determined each year according to their species and hunting periods. These changes are determined by the decisions of the Central Hunting Commission which has been organized each year.

Hunting Regions:

Golcuk the lake area. (near the city of Izmir Approx. 2 hours a way)
Guzelcamli forest ( ½ hour a way from Kusadasi)
Gokova the delta area (1 hour a way from Marmaris)