Acknowledgments 
I would like to thank Tansu Gurpinar for making available the draft Red List of 
Threatened Animals in Turkey; Gemant Magnin and his colleagues in the Turkish 
Wildlife Protection Society (DHKD) for encouragement to prepare this discussion 
paper; Ian Hepburn for his valuable criticism and helpful comments and Yvonne 
Brown for assistance in preparing this paper. 
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Towards a Turkish Atlas? 
Max Kasparek 
In the nrdd-1970s, the Omithologjcal Society of Turkey decided to prepare 
an atlas of the breeding birds of Turkey. Initially, the whole country was 
to be worked in 10km x 10km squares, as with most of the European 
countries. But because of the high number of squares - some 12,000 - and 
the lack of suitable maps (maps with a 10km x 10km UTM grid are still 
not available for Turkey), it was decided to reduce the scheme to half- 
degree squares (Porter and Beaman, OST Bull 15: 4-5). The number of 
squares thus decreased to less than 500. 
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