The opinion and action of the NGO against the global climate changes that are related with cultural heritage in Turkey

AYDIN UÇAR & ESER GULTEKIN
Akdeniz University, Turkey

Turkey have got valuable cultural heritages from different cultures that they had lived in its great geography in the past but therefore there are very few NGO that they are working about it. Meanwhile the cultural heritages have got a lot of threats like the other countries that are coming from human and nature. The aim of this paper is to reveal the posture, action or mission of the NGO's against the global climate change in Turkey and it will find out the question “how can they are adapting their status to the new situation”. It is sure that the NGO and the authorities were caught unprepared about the global climate change. The status about the NGO have not changed in present yet. Actually after a short revise we could observe that the first objective of the NGO and authorities are to making conscious the people about cultural heritage because the opinion of people to treasure are depend of their cultural background. As second the activity of the government such as to build dam, highway etc. are also great problems to protect the cultural heritages. May be recently we don't live effective problems about global climate change like water flood, landslide, forest fire and etc. but they are prescience about the results for example it is expecting for the middle Anatolia that there will lose their top soil and become desert, for the coastal are expected heavy rainstorm. The traditional building culture and their technique and materials that they have used are more harmonious with the nature, place and environment. The marginal change in global climate will bring different problems except the known. What will/ must the new role of the NGO in Turkey after the foot steps/ experience of the EU/ American NGO.