Most of the modern nation of Turkey occupies the broad peninsula of Anatolia (Asia Minor) between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. At its western end, Anatolia faces Greece across the Aegean Sea. This page includes Anatolian Turkey's lighthouses on the Aegean coasts of İzmir, Balıkesir, and Çanakkale provinces. Northern coasts of Balıkesir and Çanakkale provinces facing the Dardanelles and Sea of Marmara are covered on the Northwestern Turkey page. The Turkish phrase for a lighthouse is fener (plural fenerler) or deniz feneri ("sea lantern"). Burnu is a cape or headland, ada or adası is an island, and limani is a harbor. Lighthouses in Turkey are operated by the Directorate General of Coastal Safety (Kıyı Emniyeti Genel Müdürlüğü, KEGM). ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights. Admiralty numbers are from volume N of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals. U.S. NGA List numbers are from Publication 113.
| ![]() Karaburun Light, Karaburun, September 2006 ex-Panoramio photo copyright Levent Duranli; permission requested |
İzmir (Smyrna) Province Lighthouses
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![]() Sügünkaya Light, Alaçatı photo copyright Capt. Peter Mosselberger; used by permission |
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![]() East Breakwater Light, Mordoğan, 2019 Turkish Coastal Safety Directorate photo |
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![]() Değirmen Burnu Light, Foça, August 2017 Google Maps photo by Christian Bosman |
Southern Balıkesir Province Lighthouses
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![]() Gunes Adası Light, Ayvalık Turkish Coastal Safety Directorate photo |
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![]() Edremit Karaburan Light, Edremit Coastal Safety Directorate photo |
Southern Çanakkale Province Lighthouses
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![]() Sivrice Light, Ayvacık, September 2009 ex-Panoramio photo copyright Gokcen Erduran permission requested |
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![]() Batı Burnu Light, Bozcaada Çanakkale Province government photo (no longer online) |
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Adjoining pages: North: Northwestern Turkey | South: Southwestern Turkey | West: Greece Aegean Islands
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Posted May 5, 2007. Checked and revised March 14, 2020. Lighthouses: 40. Site copyright 2020 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.