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Türkiye has set a new record in cocoa exports, despite the crop not being cultivated domestically due to climate conditions…
According to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK), exports doubled between 2021 and 2025, reaching 1.66 billion dollars last year, the highest figure ever recorded. Over the five-year period, cocoa exports rose by 114.7 percent, surpassing 5.5 billion dollars in total.
Globally, cocoa is grown primarily in South America and Africa. In Türkiye, small-scale experimental cultivation has recently begun in the Mediterranean region, though the country’s role in the sector is largely through processing. Cocoa, indispensable to the food industry—especially chocolate—is traded both in raw form and as processed products. The transformation of cocoa into finished goods for international markets has significantly boosted export revenues.
Annual figures show steady growth: 775 million dollars in 2021, 942 million dollars in 2022, 1.02 billion dollars in 2023 and 1.12 billion dollars in 2024, culminating in last year’s record-breaking 1.66 billion dollars.
The United States was the largest buyer in 2025, importing 244 million dollars worth of cocoa products from Türkiye. Other major destinations included Iraq (175 million dollars), Iran (102.8 million dollars), Saudi Arabia (74.2 million dollars) and Russia (69.5 million dollars).
On the import side, Türkiye brought in 2.2 billion dollars worth of cocoa last year. Côte d’Ivoire was the leading supplier with 567 million dollars, followed by Ghana (331.1 million dollars), the Netherlands (297.8 million dollars), Germany (143.6 million dollars) and Belgium (122.6 million dollars).
The figures highlight Türkiye’s growing role in the global cocoa trade, not as a producer but as a processor and exporter of value-added products…
