TURKEY’S GARMENT AND TEXTILE SECTOR BATTERED BY THE DEVASTATING EARTHQUAKE
February 22nd, 2023
Turkey’s textile and clothing sector is grappling with the fact that around a third of the country’s garment and textile production capacity was clustered around the epicentre of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that has killed more than 47,000 people, left millions homeless and destroyed hundreds of thousands of buildings.
This natural disaster is causing reverberations throughout the sector and beyond, with Turkey among the top five exporters worldwide of textiles and garments, selling USD34 billion’s worth of product in 2021, and among the top 10 importers ...
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