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Year:2 Issue: 3 , 17 Jan. 2011<strong>Survey</strong> on e-Services ofExport Promotion Center ofTurkey (IGEME)Building Materials inTurkeyThank you for filling out the surveyform. Your answers will enable us toserve you better and improve ourservice tools.Click here for <strong>Survey</strong> FormClothing Fabrics in TurkeyThe textile industry is the largest andone of the first established industriesin Turkey. The sector comprises 20thousand manufacturing companiesand employs about 400 thousandemployees. The fabric industry as asub-sector of the huge Turkish textileindustry has improved significantly inrecent years, since the Turkish clothingand home textile industries have had asignificant role in the world’s clothingand home textile markets in the lasttwo decades.Read more »The construction sector is one of theleading sectors of the economy withlinks to approximately 150 subsectors.Depending on local industry,creating high value added andconsiderable employment potential,meeting the demand for buildingmaterials from domestic supplies andhaving a hard currency earningcapacity as a result of buildingmaterials exports and the projectsundertaken abroad, the constructionsector in Turkey is a driving force inthe Turkish economy.Read more »1

Year:2 Issue: 3 , 17 Jan. 2011Automotive Industry andAutoparts in TurkeyAgricultural MachineryIndustry in TurkeyVehicle industry production in Turkeydates back to the mid-1950s and theindustry gained momentum in theearly 1960s. After manufacturing someprototype vehicles during the 1950s,the first vehicle assembly companywas established in 1954 (Turk WillysOverland Ltd.) for jeep manufacturing.By 1955, trucks, and by 1963, buseswere being assembled in Turkey.Read more »The huge agriculture sector in Turkeyhas contributed to the formation of astrong agricultural machinery sector.The agricultural machinery industryhas two main categories: tractors andagricultural machinery. All of theagricultural machinery and almost allof the tractors manufactured in thesector are used in agriculturalproduction activities (a very smallpercentage of tractors are used inother activities, mostly in theconstruction sector).Read more »2

Year:2 Issue: 3 , 17 Jan. 2011The Turkish Association ofAgricultural Machinery andEquipment ManufacturersIstanbul Fashion Fair- 3-6March, 2011The Turkish Association of AgriculturalMachinery and EquipmentManufacturers is an association whosemembers are manufacturers, importersand sellers of agricultural machines inour country. Our Association has 218members. With the permission ofTurkish Council of Minister the leadingword 'Turkish' was started to use andagain with Turkish Council of Minister'sapproval, TARMAKBIR became amember of CEMA (EuropeanCommittee of Association ofAgricultural Machinery) in 1995. InTurkey, majority of manufactured andimported agricultural machines aremade by our members.Read more »Fashion industry's longest-establishedexhibition Istanbul Fashion Fair, heldbetween the dates of 26 and 28August 2010 at CNR Expo Istanbul,once again gathered hundreds ofbrands with purchase groups from allaround the world for the 17th time.Completed with a 35% growthcompared to the previous year,Istanbul Fashion Fair was visited by12,435 professionals including 2,723foreigners.Read more »ABIGEM-European TurkishBusiness Centres NetworkThe pioneering of the Union ofChambers and Commodity Exchangesof Turkey (TOBB) in cooperation withthe related Chambers of Trade and/orIndustry has established EU TurkishBusiness Centres (ABIGEM) inGaziantep, Kocaeli and Izmir with theEuropean Union (EU) funds in 2002.Read more »3