Economic sanctions applied by United States on Turkey took a wide place in English press, too. Financial Times emphasized these developments occurred will affect cotton trade negatively between USA and Turkey.

Migiboy Textile Chairman of the Board Vehbi Canpolat, states they will increase employment digit above 2 thousand with the new facilities to be opened.

The impact of economic development to the cotton and the sector assessed by of Cotton Council Turkey Director Marsha Powell, expressed that the removal of US cotton from Internal Processing Regime is a penalty to Turkish Textile Sector

Leather sector maintained its rise. As 16, 5% export rise carried out in the first half of 2018, 853 million dollars foreign sale realized at the same time.

Despite all the negative political developments, Turkey's home textiles exports to the United States has significantly increased.

Hilal Suerdem, CEO of Kiğılı, who states that the customer experience will be more important in the next years, also says they focus on digitalisation to catch this success at this field.

Deciding to move 40 percent of its production to Turkey as of 2019, sports-retailer chain Decathlon calls on the domestic suppliers for this purpose.