Dış Ticaret ve Çevre: Kirlilik Sığınakları Hipotezi Türkiye Uygulaması(Trade and the Environment: The Case of Turkey Considering the Pollution Havens Hypotesis)

Along with its other effects, the process of free trade is a matter of discussion on its effects on environment as well. The literature on this issue has tended to handle the relation between liberalization of trade and environment in frame of the Pollution Havens Hypothesis. This study has evaluated the propositions of the hypothesis, which state that less developed and developing countries will have more pollution-intensive industries and will experience a deteriorating quality of environment in the process of liberalization of trade, and concluded that the quality of environment in Turkey has not worsened but rather improved in this process