Istanbul Chamber of Industry (ISO) announced the Industrial Sector Report on the Production of Textile Products. According to the report prepared on the basis of the data of the TurkStat (Turkish Statistical Institute) with the contributions of five committees representing the textile products production in ISO, Turkey made progress and ranked seventh among the biggest textile exporters of the world with an export volume of about $ 11 billion in 2012. On the other hand, the share of the sector in the total production industry regressed in 2011 in terms of entrepreneurs, paid workers, production, added value and investments in comparison to 2004.
According to the report announced by Can Fuat Gürlesel, the Counsellor of ISO, Turkish textile sector reached the rank of seven by increasing its export volume which was $ 7.08 billion in 2005 to $ 11.09 billion in 2012. The sector has made the highest amounts of export to Russia, Germany, Italy, the USA and Saudi Arabia. However, the share of the sector in the total export volume of Turkey regressed to 8.1 % from 9.6 % in the same period. In the same period again, textile import reached to $ 6.59 billion from $ 4.44 billion and the share of the sector in the overall import volume regressed to 2.8 % from 3.8 %.
Textile sector has grown in terms of employment and creation of added value since 2004. The number of entrepreneurs which was 19.726 in 2004 increased to 23.012 in 2011. The textile sector which created employment opportunities for 342.474 individuals with an increase of 2.6 % in the same period also succeeded in increasing its production value to 59.76 Billion Turkish Liras from 31.65 Billion Turkish Liras and increased its added value to 11.81 Billion Turkish Liras from 7.8 Billion Dollars.
The share of the textile sector in the total production industry of Turkey regressed. Accordingly, while the share of the textile entrepreneur in the production industry was 7 % in 2004, this share fell back to 6.9 % in 2011. In the same period, the share of the sector in terms of paid workers fell to 12 % from 16 %, the share of the sector in the added value fell to 9.2 % from 11.6 % and the share of the sector in the investments fell to 10.7 % from 16,4 %. The production volume of the sector also regressed by 8 % between 2005 and 2012. The investment amount of the sector in 2011 was 5.23 Billion Turkish Liras.
