| Summary: | Almost all of the
forests in Turkey are owned by the state and they are managed by General
Directorate of Forestry (GDF). GDF has been getting forest management certified
some of its forests byForest Stewardship Council (FSC) since 2011. As of 2016, 29 forest
district directorates and 1 forest sub-district directorate become certified.
In this study, it is aimed to investigate forest certification and primary
certification schemes with present situation and contributions of FSC certified
forest resources in Turkey after certification process. Primary data of this
study is obtained by questionnaire method and secondary data is obtained from
the searches that are conducted on books and studies on this subject. The
statistical software (SPSS 20) is used to analyze the data which is obtained by
questionnaire method. Due to non-normal distribution of the data,
non-parametric Chi-Square test and Kruskal-Wallis H test are used for
evaluation. In the result of this study, it is seen that forest management
certification applications in Turkey has positive effects on subjects like,
transparency in management and informing public, environmental impact
assessment practices, environmental sensitivity and monitoring practices, on
the other hand it has not any positive effects on subjects like production,
demand, sales and forest product prices. As conclusion it is revealed that
forest management certification applications in Turkey has positive
contribution for forest practices on environmental and social issues but it has
no positive contribution on economic issues.
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