Turkey’s leading e-magazine textilegence.com states, though the country’s textile and raw materials exports were hugely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in the first half of 2020, they soon managed to enter a rapid recovery process. Turkey’s textile exports during January-June ’20, declined 17.4 per cent to $4.1 billion compared to the same period previous year. However, in June, the country’s textile exports increased by 19.8 per cent to $766 million compared to the previous year. Its overall exports in the first half of the year increased by 15.8 per cent to $13.5 billion

Turkey’s quantity-based textile exports during the January-June period decreased by 14.3 per cent to 999,000 ton. However, exports in June increased by 16.3 per cent. The country exported the highest amount of textile and raw materials to 28 EU countries during the month. However, its exports to the EU fell 18.5 per cent to $2 billion Exports to other European countries increased by 114.9 per cent to reach $11 million in June. Its exports to the Old East Bloc Countries increased by 37.2 per cent in June to $87 million dollars. In the context of the January-June period of 2020, its textile exports to this market decreased by 10.9 per cent to $431 million.

Technical textiles were the most important product exported by Turkey during the January-June 2020 period. Turkey’s export of technical textiles increased by 43.9 per cent compared to the same period of the previous year to reach $1.1 billion. The export of technical textiles products in June was calculated as $318 million with an increase of 202 per cent.