Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM) President Mustafa Gultepe said, “We started our work and strategies with the target of $375 billion of goods exports and $200 billion of service exports in 2028.”
Gultepe, who came to Trabzon to participate in the panel, told the AA correspondent that Turkiye’s exports, which were close to $50 million in 1923, increased to $254.3 billion in 2022.
Stating that he has high expectations from exports, Gultepe said, “Hopefully, our exports will exceed $255 billion in 2023, in the 100th anniversary of our Republic.”
Emphasizing that they are already planning for the coming years, Gultepe said, “In the meetings we held with our President and ministries, we started our work and strategies with the target of $375 billion of goods exports and $200 billion of service exports in 2028. These numbers are the ones that can be achieved. If there is no problem in the conjuncture and economic movements in the world, perhaps Turkiye’s people have the potential and energy to rise above them. I am seeing that.”
“We will achieve much better figures in the coming period”
Underlining that strategies have been determined to increase export potential in all sectors, Gultepe continued as follows:
“We have created plans and projections for all sectors, strategies in which areas, in which regions, in which parts of the world they can grow, and with which projects they can achieve these figures. We have completed Turkiye’s first century and started working on its second century. There is an average growth rate in sectors between 5% and 10%. There is 100% growth in some of our sectors. I believe that we will be able to reach these figures in the next 5 years if there is no problem in the conjuncture movements in the world.”
Gultepe also noted the following regarding the efforts to expand Turkiye’s target markets:
“Our biggest target market is the European Union. By maintaining the current situation in the European Union, especially America, the Far East countries, which we call distant markets, and the Gulf countries are currently our focus. The share we have received there is very low. “Hopefully, we will increase our share here with the work we will do in the coming periods, with trade delegations, fairs and purchasing delegations.”
Pointing out that TIM attaches great importance to production, employment and exports, Gultepe said, “We are a country that produces, exports and employs. We will achieve much better figures in the coming period.”
Source: AA / Prepared by Irem Yildiz