IMPORTANCE OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS AND GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS OF VİZE (KIRKLARELİ)

Application of geographical indication is the protection of a local product or value within the law. actually the application had been applied along the hundreds of years; nevertheless it was shaped lastly in 1995. also, the importance of the application is to preserve the local values -which are determined in specific criteria- for future generations and to introduce it to international market. at least one feature of the value or product must be specific from a definite geography, it is fundamental for determination. thus, with this application it is possible to protect the national values as well as to gain culturally also economically. turkey has a deep history and so has important richness of geographical indications; 155 national value is qualified as geographical indication, also filed an application for 224 in 2012. the target of this research is “what can be done about the potential geographically indications of vize (kırklareli)” and investigation of their possible gains for area.