Ahmet Öksüz, Chairman of the Board of the Istanbul Textile and Raw Materials Exporters’ Association (İTHİB), emphasized in his speech at the 2025 Successful Exporters Award Ceremony that the global slowdown, logistics challenges, and disruptions in supply chains have once again highlighted the importance of domestic production. Pointing out that protecting the sector against unfair competition has now become critical, he stated that protecting the textile industry—one of Türkiye's key industrial backbones—is not a choice but a necessity.
Öksüz noted that despite the contraction in the European Union, the sector’s largest export market, they are striving to maintain market share, while also achieving significant momentum...
Türkiye, one of the few countries producing GMO free cotton alongside Greece and Spain, has successfully branded this unique position globally through the sustainable cotton initiative “GMO-Free Turkish Cotton,”...
Ahmet Öksüz, Chairman of the Board of the Istanbul Textile and Raw Materials Exporters’ Association (İTHİB), emphasized in his speech at the 2025 Successful Exporters Award Ceremony that the global slowdown, logistics challenges, and disruptions in supply chains have once again highlighted the importance of domestic production. Pointing out that protecting the sector against unfair competition has now become critical, he stated that protecting the textile industry—one of Türkiye's key industrial backbones—is not a choice but a necessity.
Öksüz noted that despite the contraction in the European Union, the sector’s largest export market, they are striving to maintain market share, while also achieving significant momentum in the United States, the second-largest export market. He continued: “With exports approaching 800 million dollars in 2025, we are now the eighth-largest supplier to the U.S. Over the past five years, we have increased our market share from 1.6% to 3.2%. Our goal is to rank among the top five suppliers to the U.S. We firmly believe that, with the expected downward trend in global interest rates, we will achieve this target in the coming period.”
Öksüz also stated that the implementation of additional tariffs by the U.S. and the European Union’s new trade agreements—affecting Türkiye as a key export market—have turned countries like Türkiye into target markets for Asia....
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EDANA, the global association of the nonwovens and related industries, reminds of the legal requirement to comply with the EU rules on customs classification...
Global trade, reshaped by the free trade agreements signed by the European Union in January, is altering the competitive balance in Europe — Türkiye’s...
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In parallel with the recent trend of many Turkish textile companies shifting their production to Egypt, the country has stood out in Türkiye’s export...
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In a written statement, İzmir Commodity Exchange (İTB) Board Chair Işınsu Kestelli said that additional field surveys were carried out across the Aegean in...
In its November–December 2025 issue, Textilegence once again keeps the pulse of the textile, fashion, and printing agenda. As we leave another year behind,...
