Various problems occur in afforestation and regeneration practices to inıprove and increase the wealth of forests in Turkey. In this study, İstanbul Forestry Regional Directorate was selected to research in order to determine the problems about afforestation and to provide suggestions at regional directorate level. The main reason why this area vvas selected, as a research area is that İstanbul region has been knovvn to have some social, economic, technical, and political problems about afforestation activities for a long time.