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...
