Foreign Trade

August 2026… Turkish Mercantile Exchange (TMEX – TÜRİB) General Manager Ali Kırali announced that since TÜRİB’s launch, the trading volume in the Electronic Warehouse Receipt (EWR – ELÜS) market has reached 475 million Turkish Lira and the transaction quantity has reached 64.5 million tonnes. “In addition to our national market, …

August 2026… Severe global supply chain disruptions resulting from rapidly warming surface water, droughts threaten to push inflation up, putting global growth at risk… LONDON / BRUSSELS / ISTANBUL… The El Nino weather phenomenon is rapidly intensifying, warming surface waters in the Pacific Ocean, and is expected to cause droughts, …

August 2026… Press release… Sütaş has reached an agreement to acquire the remaining 50 percent stake held by the Nishat Group in its Pakistan dairy and dairy products investment, which began with a partnership established in 2018 with the Nishat Group. Sütaş is taking a new step in its investment …

August 2026… Beekeepers in Türkiye’s Central Anatolian province of Aksaray are exporting approximately 500 tonnes of honey, produced from hives set up in areas with sunflower fields, to Belgium, the Netherlands and Japan. Refik İçli, Chairman of the Aksaray Beekeepers’ Association, said, “It is a golden-coloured, wonderfully fragrant and high-quality …

August 2026… 2.2 billion dollars in cereal exports from the Southeastern Anatolia region in 7 months… Exports from the cereals, pulses, oilseeds and processed products sector in the Southeastern Anatolia Region rose by 7.4 percent in the January–July period, reaching 2.2 billion dollars. GAZİANTEP… According to a statement issued by …

August 2026… Fatma Can Sağlık, Chairwoman of the Turkish Milk, Meat, Food Industrialists and Producers Association (SETBİR) announced that Türkiye’s strength in milk production is clearly reflected in foreign trade data… “We are a net exporter country in milk and dairy product foreign trade. As Türkiye, we exported 213,076 tonnes …

Press release… August 2026… Ufuk Atakan Demir, Chair of the Aegean Fisheries and Animal Products Exporters Association, announced that they ramped up their exports by 13.5 percent in the last year, from 1.763 billion to 2.001 billion dollars, making them the Association with the highest export growth rate among the …

August 2026… Anchovy exports from Türkiye reached $10,888,755 in the January-July period… TRABZON… Hasan Kuzuoğlu, Chairman of the Fisheries Sector Committee of the Eastern Black Sea Exporters Association (DKİB), stated that Türkiye exported 3,286 tonnes of anchovies in the first seven months of the year. “This export generated 10,888,755 dollars …

August 2026… The Turkish Exporters Assembly’s (TİM) “Türkiye’s Top 1000 Exporters 2025” survey does far more than rank the country’s most successful exporters. It also provides a compelling picture of how Türkiye’s grain processing industry has evolved over the past four decades. A closer look at the list reveals one …

August 2026… Dairy producers, seeking to diversify the number of countries they export to, have focused on new markets… Fatma Can Sağlık, Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of the Turkish Dairy, Meat, Food Industrialists and Producers Association (SETBİR), stated that the largest markets, according to the export map, are …