Türkiye's water

Was drought declared?

Short answer

In the last five water years the Official Gazette carried 3 drought records.

Records are only declarations and measures whose title mentions drought; no assessment.

Summary

Official Gazette records whose title contains a drought keyword, by water year: 3 records in the last five water years (2021-22–2025-26), 3 from earlier years. Each record is given with its details, title, link and a rule-based class (declaration / measure / institutional rule); no assessment.

Source: the Official Gazette search service (title search; keys, in Turkish: kuraklık, kuraklığ, kuraklık afeti, su kısıtı, su tasarrufu, susuzluk, kuraklıktan etkilenen, yağış azlığı). Text inside documents is not searched; a decision whose title lacks a key does not appear here. No official text is copied, only details, title and link. Class and role come from words in the title by a fixed rule, written out below. No legal assessment.

Source: Resmî Gazete (Official Gazette) · Data as of: 6 November 2026

Declaration or measure? By water year

Record counts by water year
Water year	Institutional rule	Unclassified	What the titles show
2021-22	1	1	only institutional rule / unclassified records
2022-23	0	1	only institutional rule / unclassified records
2023-24	0	0	no record found in Official Gazette titles (method: title search)
2024-25	0	0	no record found in Official Gazette titles (method: title search)
2025-26	0	0	no record found in Official Gazette titles (method: title search)

2025-26 water year 0 records

No record found in Official Gazette titles (method: title search).

2024-25 water year 0 records

No record found in Official Gazette titles (method: title search).

2023-24 water year 0 records

No record found in Official Gazette titles (method: title search).

2022-23 water year 1 record

Bölgede Yaşanan Kuraklık ile Gıda Arz ve Güvenliği Hususları Dikkate Alındığında Önemli ve İvedi Yatırımlardan Olan Akdağmadeni-Bahçecik Projesi (KOP) Kapsamında Bazı Taşınmazların Devlet Su İşleri Genel Müdürlüğü Tarafından Acele Kamulaştırılması Hakkında Karar (Karar Sayısı: 7126)20 April 2023 · Official Gazette no. 32169 · decision 7126 · Presidential Decision · class: unclassified → unclassified

2021-22 water year 2 records

Tarımsal Kuraklık Yönetiminin Görevleri, Çalışma Usul ve Esasları Hakkında Yönetmelik23 July 2022 · Official Gazette no. 31901 · Regulation · class: institutional rule → institutional rule
Tarımsal Kuraklıkla Mücadele ve Kuraklık Yönetimi Çalışmaları Hakkında Karar (Karar Sayısı: 5140)2 February 2022 · Official Gazette no. 31738 · decision 5140 · Presidential Decision · class: unclassified → unclassified

Earlier water years 3 records

The search started from 1 October 2021; the source also returned earlier records. Data is not deleted; it stays here under its own heading.

Küresel İklim Değişikliğinin Etkilerinin En Aza İndirilmesi, Kuraklıkla Mücadele ve Su Kaynaklarının Verimli Kullanılması İçin Alınması Gereken Tedbirlerin Belirlenmesi Amacıyla Kurulan Meclis Araştırması Komisyonunun Görev Süresinin Uzatılmasına Dair Karar12 June 2021 · Official Gazette no. 31509 · decision 1286 · Parliament (TBMM) Decision · class: institutional rule → institutional rule
Küresel İklim Değişikliğinin Etkilerinin En Aza İndirilmesi, Kuraklıkla Mücadele ve Su Kaynaklarının Verimli Kullanılması İçin Alınması Gereken Tedbirlerin Belirlenmesi Amacıyla Kurulan Meclis Araştırması Komisyonuna Üye Seçimine Dair Karar24 March 2021 · Official Gazette no. 31433 · decision 1281 · Parliament (TBMM) Decision · class: institutional rule → institutional rule
Küresel İklim Değişikliğinin Etkilerinin En Aza İndirilmesi, Kuraklıkla Mücadele ve Su Kaynaklarının Verimli Kullanılması İçin Alınması Gereken Tedbirlerin Belirlenmesi Amacıyla Bir Meclis Araştırması Komisyonu Kurulmasına Dair Karar2 March 2021 · Official Gazette no. 31411 · decision 1279 · Parliament (TBMM) Decision · class: institutional rule → institutional rule

Titles are given in Turkish as published; linked pages open the Official Gazette in Turkish.

Classification rule and source statusword in title → class → role

agricultural finance measure → measure: title contains borç (debt), kredi (credit), erteleme (deferral), taksit (instalment), faiz (interest) or destek (support)
disaster declaration / damage finding → declaration: title contains afet (disaster), zarar (loss), hasar (damage) or etkilenen (affected)
use measure → measure: title contains kısıt (restriction), tasarruf (saving), kesinti (cut) or kullanım (use)
institutional rule → institutional rule: title contains yönetmelik (regulation), kurul (board), usul (procedure), esas (principle), teşkilat (organisation) or görev (duty)
unclassified → unclassified: title contains none of the words above

Order of precedence when rules overlap: agricultural finance measure → disaster declaration / damage finding → use measure → institutional rule → unclassified (the first matching rule wins; the kurul pattern also matches kurulan/kurulması).

Last run 6 November 2026 · last successful run 6 November 2026 · status: alındı · Re-run monthly (6th of the month, 01:40 UTC); stops if the rate limit (HTTP 429) is hit. Data: /veri/kuraklik-ilanlari.json (compilation CC BY 4.0; Official Gazette titles are official publications).