Istanbul Tekstil Blog

A straight-talking comparison for brand buyers: Turkey, Bangladesh, and China for knitwear manufacturing. Quality, lead times, certifications, and total cost of sourcing.

Sourcing from Turkey? Here's what every brand buyer needs to know before choosing a garment manufacturer — certifications, MOQs, lead times, and red flags to avoid.

Istanbul is not a textile city because of geography alone. Plenty of cities sit close to European markets. Istanbul developed into the centre of Turkey's circular knit industry because of a combination of factors that took decades to build: concentrated machinery investment, a deep pool of technical workers, an organic cotton supply chain running through Anatolia, and a generation of factory owners who learned their trade by exporting to demanding Western markets. That combin

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