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Yusuf Gabay: Farmers play a vital role in food security and sustainability

Press release… Yusuf Gabay, Chairman of the Board of the Aegean Dried Fruit and Products Exporters’ Association—which accounts for 55 percent of Türkiye’s exports of seedless raisins, dried apricots and dried figs, products in which the country is a world leader in production and export—stated in his remarks that highlighted …

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Şemsettin Özgür elected as the Chair of the Turkish Dried Fruit Exporters Sector Board!

Press release… Şemsettin Özgür, Vice Chairman of the Aegean Dried Fruit and Products Exporters Association, was unanimously elected as the Chairman of the Turkish Dried Fruit and Products Exporters Associations Sector Board. The Turkish Dried Fruit Sector Board held its first meeting at the Aegean Exporters Associations (EIB). Left to …

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Şemsettin Özgür represents Turkish dried fruit sector in “Raisins, Prunes and Cranberries” session at the 43rd INC Congress in Macao…

Aegean Dried Fruit and Products Exporters’ Association continues to represent the sector at the 43rd INC World Nut and Dried Fruit Congress. On the first day of the congress held in Macao, our Vice Chairman of the Board, Şemsettin Özgür, participated as a panelist in the “Raisins, Prunes and Cranberries” …

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Mehmet Ali Işık: Turkish dried fruit sector generated 1.7 billion dollars in foreign exchange revenue

Press release… Mehmet Ali Işık, Aegean Exporters’ Associations (EIB) Organic Products and Sustainability Coordinator and Chair of the Aegean Dried Fruit and Products Exporters’ Association, stated that the dried fruit sector, one of Türkiye’s most strategic sectors, has generated 1.74 billion dollars in net foreign exchange revenue for the country …

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Mehmet Ali Işık: The second stop at Turkish Tastes will be Japan

Press release… Mehmet Ali Işık, Head of the Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters’ Association and Sustainability and Organic Products Coordinator of the Aegean Exporters’ Association, announced that Japan imports 80 billion dollars worth of food products annually. Pointing out that the TURQUALITY Project, Turkish Tastes, successfully implemented in the …

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Mehmet Ali Işık: We aim to surpass 400 million dollars in the new dried figs export season

Press release… The target for the 2025/26 season is 400 million dollars… Mehmet Ali Işık, Chair of the Aegean Dried Fruit and Products Exporters’ Association, announced that their aim to maintain their global leadership in dried fig production and exports. saying, “We are continuously working to ensure the healthy and …

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Dried fig exports reach a historic record of 369 million dollars!

Press release… Türkiye completed the 2024/25 export season with a successful performance in dried figs, the fruit of paradise. Foreign exchange earnings from dried fig exports soared by 27 percent in the 2024/25 season, from 290,858,000 dollars to 369,759,000 dollars. Türkiye surpassed the 300 million dollars threshold for the first …

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Mehmet Ali Işık: Türkiye continues to lead the dried fruit industry in the world

Press release… Işık: “We are the world leader in the production and export of seedless raisins, dried apricots and dried figs.” Mehmet Ali Işık, Chairperson of the Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters’ Association, stated that World Food Day, October 16th, presents a significant opportunity to remember the importance of …

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Mehmet Ali Işık: The decline in raisin harvest will continue in the 2025/26 season

Press release… Mehmet Ali Işık, Chair of the Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters’ Association, stated that Türkiye’s investment in viticulture has resulted in a production capacity of 1.2 million decares of seedless sultana grapes in the Manisa-Denizli-İzmir triangle. Mehmet Ali Işık, Chair of the Aegean Dried Fruits and Products …

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Dried fig exports to kick off on October 15!

Press release… 15 At the Aegean Dried Fruit and Products Exporters’ Association’s Advisory General Assembly, a recommendation was made to kick off the 2025/26 dried fig season of which Türkiye is a global leader in production and export, on October 15, 2025. The Ministry of Trade will make the final …

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