Özet:

Geographical Indications (GI) contributes to the sustainability of the cultural heritage and economy of the countries. Registered GI food products, which also play an important role in gastronomic tourism, provide convenience in promotion for producers and purchase opportunity for consumers, as they are reliable, of high quality and have strong link with origin. Turkey has a significant number of registered GI in terms of gastronomic products. The aim of this is to examine registered GI dessert products which can be considered as gastronomically in Turkey for the characteristics (Protected geographical indications-Protected designation of origin-product group) with their distribution by year, region and provincial. In addition, these products are classified as milk desserts, cereal desserts, dough desserts, fruit and vegetable desserts and halvas. For this purpose, the data in the Turkish Patent and Trademark Institution Geographical Indications Portal were examined with the descriptive analysis technique, one of the qualitative research methods. As a result of this study, it has been determined that Turkey has 143 registered GI sweet products, and only 2 of them (1%) are of origin and 141 of them (99%) are marked. After "Bozdağ Chestnut Candy" received the first registration in 2000, there was an increase in the number of registrations compared to years and it increased to 43 products in 2021. Registered GI desserts in the product group distributios "Bakery and Pastry Products, Pastries, Desserts" with 103 products, for the basis of the regions "Black Sea Region" with 30 products, and for provincial basis "Gaziantep" with 11 products comes first. For the product class, "Dough Desserts” with 49 products (34%) and "Halvas" with 39 products (28%) were determined as the most intense.

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