An excellent swimming beach, İztuzu (or Turtle) Beach is one of the Mediterranean nesting sites of the loggerhead turtle , and special rules to protect it are enforced.
Although the beach is open to the public during the day, night-time visits – 8pm to 8am – are prohibited from May to September. A line of wooden stakes on the beach indicates the nest sites, and visitors are asked to keep behind them to avoid disturbing the nests.
This 4.5km-long strip of sand is 13km south of Dalyan's centre and accessible via road and the Dalyan River. Minibuses (₺3.5, 20 minutes) run to the beach from Cumhuriyet Meydanı in the centre of Dalyan every half-hour in season.
