629 Turkish suppliers, ready to approach
The Turkey file brings together every Turkish manufacturer in the directory, across all categories: from the Istanbul garment workshop to the Denizli terry-linen maker, from the Bozüyük ceramicist to the ODM cosmetics lab. Each one is registered with the official trade registry, with its public contact details and a confidence score. Ideal if you are targeting a market (Turkey) rather than a single universe.
We are a firm based in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, since 2018, in daily contact with online sellers who set up their European company, register for VAT and import their products. This directory extends that work: it was built by cross-checking the Turkish trade registry, keeping only manufacturers that are genuinely registered (registration number / MERSIS), then removing dead websites and personal email addresses (GDPR compliance). You are not paying for a raw export, but for a cleaned, structured and scored database. Latest compilation from the official registries: 2026.
Each record is designed to move straight to action:
What each record contains
Legal name and local name, official registration number (EIK in Bulgaria, CUI in Romania, MERSIS in Turkey), universe, category and sub-segment, region and city, products, white-label capability, headcount, year founded, website, generic email and phone when public, notes and sources.
A spreadsheet ready to run
Built-in tracking columns (My status, Priority, Contacted on, Follow up on, My notes) with dropdown menus and colour coding: your directory becomes a mini prospecting CRM, filterable by country, city or universe.
Each supplier is a full record, up to 24 fields per record. Here is a sample record (data redacted):
Illustrative preview (data redacted). Each record has up to 24 fields plus 5 tracking columns. The real contact details (website, email, phone, registration number) are in the file delivered to buyers, never on this page. The Turkey file brings together the 629 Turkish suppliers, across all categories.
Each row is a manufacturer from the Turkey file: 24 fields per record plus 5 tracking columns. Contact details are masked here, complete in the delivered file.
We prefer fair expectations to a nice promise. The directory gives you qualified contacts to approach yourself, not a guarantee of an order:
- Non-exhaustive list: the directory is a qualified selection, not a census of all manufacturers. We list those we have identified and cross-checked against the official registries, and we enrich it regularly; the absence of a specific company is therefore not a fault of the file;
- you contact the suppliers directly, with no intermediary and no commission;
- responsiveness and terms (MOQ, prices, lead times) belong to each manufacturer and vary;
- it is a digital file delivered immediately: by ticking the consent box at checkout, you request immediate delivery and expressly waive the 14-day right of withdrawal (digital content);
- one-off payment, no subscription.
Three ways to access the suppliers
Take just your universe, a whole country, or everything at once. It's up to you, depending on your project.
One category
A single category, across the three countries.
- 10 universes to choose from (fashion, beauty, food...)
- A single category, across the 3 countries
- Ideal if you are targeting one product
Turkey
The Turkey directory brings together the 629 Turkish manufacturers, across all categories, to approach directly with no intermediary and no commission.
- 629 manufacturers, 10 universes: textile, home appliances, ceramics, furniture, cosmetics, food
- Registered with the registry (MERSIS), public contact details and a confidence score
- File delivered immediately, €57 (or complete 3-country pack at €87)
Complete pack
All 10 categories and all 3 countries in a single file.
- All categories × all countries
- More than 2,000 manufacturers
- You save €183 vs à la carte
One-off payment, no subscription. Spreadsheet file delivered immediately, digital content (waiver of withdrawal at checkout).
No time to reach out yourself?
Tell us what you need: our team finds and qualifies the supplier for you, then makes you a proposal (no obligation).
Why source in Turkey?
Turkey holds a position no one else has around the EU: it has been part of the customs union with the European Union since 1996, but is not an EU member. In practice, almost all industrial products move between Turkey and the EU duty-free thanks to the A.TR certificate, while benefiting from very competitive labour costs and a dense, integrated industrial fabric, from yarn to finished product. The Turkish government actively supports exports (free zones, export VAT rebates, Eximbank credits), which has made the country one of the great workshops of the Mediterranean basin, three hours by plane and a few days by truck from France.
Where Bulgaria has adopted the euro, Turkey keeps the Turkish lira (TRY), a very volatile currency. That cuts both ways: a real exchange-rate risk, but also an opportunity when the lira weakens against the euro, since your local costs fall in strong currency. In practice, most export-oriented Turkish manufacturers invoice in euros or dollars, which shifts the risk without erasing it: lock the currency and the payment terms from the quote onwards. The business culture is highly relational, the Istanbul negotiation is as much about trust as about price, and it rewards buyers who commit for the long term.
The A.TR advantage has limits that must be set out from the start: the A.TR is not a certificate of origin and it does not cover raw agricultural products, fisheries or coal-steel, on which duties and sanitary checks (SIVEP) remain due. And even on duty-free industrial goods, import VAT (20 %) is still due on entry into the EU. Turkey is a superb workshop, not a free zone: promising "zero costs" would be dishonest.
What does Turkey make? A sector-by-sector overview
The showcase is textile-clothing: Turkey is one of the world's largest clothing exporters, with a full chain from yarn to finished product. Istanbul alone accounts for nearly 60 % of national garment-making, Bursa is the fabric capital, Denizli rules over knitwear and bath linen, while Gaziantep and Kahramanmaraş dominate denim. Low minimum quantities and short lead times make it the number-one asset for fashion e-commerce: see the Turkish garment, knitwear and denim factories.
Its heaviest strength is home appliances: Turkey is the leading manufacturer in Europe and roughly the third worldwide in the sector, driven by Arçelik (Beko and Grundig brands) and Vestel, whose giant Vestel City plant, in Manisa, ranks among the largest consumer-electronics production sites in the world. Cables, TVs and large appliances gravitate around it: explore the appliance manufacturers and electronics subcontractors.
The country is also a powerhouse in ceramics and sanitaryware: VitrA (in Bozüyük, Bilecik province) and the Kütahya cluster export tiles, earthenware and sanitary fixtures across Europe, to be found among the tile, sanitaryware and materials manufacturers. On the home side, İnegöl (near Bursa) and Kayseri form the leading furniture basin, while Denizli is a world leader in terry and home linen (towels, bathrobes): enough to fill a whole decor catalogue with the furniture and home-linen manufacturers.
Around Bursa and the Marmara region, a genuine auto-parts industry has been built: the TAYSAD association brings together hundreds of parts suppliers, a large share of which export to the EU, an ideal ground for spares and aftermarket with the auto-parts and mobility-accessory manufacturers. Istanbul has also become a hub for white-label and ODM cosmetics (the manufacturer designs and produces; you just add your brand), to explore via the Turkish contract cosmetics labs. Finally, in food, Turkey is the world's leading hazelnut producer (Black Sea coast, around Ordu and Giresun) and a giant in dried fruit, apricots, figs and spices (baklava and pepper from Gaziantep): the food producers, dried fruit and spices, bearing in mind that raw food products fall outside the A.TR umbrella.
First, trading companies present themselves as factories: in bustling marketplaces like Istanbul, always ask for the workshop address and, if possible, a visit or an audit before committing to an order. Second, in electronics, part of the value is assembled in Turkey from components of third-party origin (often Asian): this is common and honest, but it weighs on preferential origin and on what the A.TR certificate actually covers. The directory distinguishes manufacturer from trader, and scores each record.
Importing from Turkey: customs union, A.TR, VAT, EORI, lead times
Importing from Turkey means importing from a non-EU country, but a non-EU country unlike any other. Thanks to the customs union, an industrial good in free circulation accompanied by an A.TR certificate enters the EU duty-free. Three nuances are decisive: the A.TR attests free circulation, not origin (to prove a Turkish origin, you need a EUR.1 certificate or a declaration of origin); import VAT (20 % in France) is still due, then recoverable; and an EORI number is mandatory to clear customs, since Turkey is outside the EU. Raw agricultural products, fisheries and coal-steel do not benefit from the A.TR: they carry duties and sanitary checks (SIVEP) at the border.
On lead times, two routes coexist. Road Ro-Ro links Turkey to France in 7 to 10 days door to door; sea takes about 6 days at sea from Istanbul to Marseille, departing from the major ports of Ambarlı (Istanbul), İzmir and Mersin. That is longer than the 3 to 5 days by truck from Bulgaria, but much faster than the 4 to 6 weeks at sea from China, with minimum quantities often more flexible than Asia. The typical import file includes invoice, packing list, CMR or bill of lading and the A.TR certificate (or EUR.1 if you must prove origin). These lead times and costs are indicative, to be confirmed by quote.
On the groundApproaching a Turkish manufacturer: how to
Three reflexes save weeks. First, tell the factory from the trader: ask for the workshop address, a sample and, if possible, a visit or an audit, and be wary of intermediaries who refuse to name their production site. Next, settle your sector's compliance up front: CE and Declaration of Performance for tiles and materials, ISO 22716 and CPNP notification in cosmetics, with an EU-based Responsible Person that the Turkish manufacturer cannot provide on your behalf, OEKO-TEX or GOTS in textile; also remember that food supplements are not harmonised across the EU and are validated country by country. Finally, frame the currency and the Incoterm: ask for a quote in EXW and FOB, fix the invoicing currency against a volatile lira, and remember that benchmark shows Première Vision, Texworld or ISPO are held in Paris and Munich, not in Turkey (the local fairs are rather Texhibition, Automechanika Istanbul or BEAUTYISTANBUL). English is common in Turkish export teams, and the relationship matters: a supplier in Istanbul or Bursa responds better to a buyer who commits for the long term than to a simple price request.
The natural next stepThe company that goes with your sourcing
Sourcing in Turkey changes your logistics, and above all your customs: since Turkey is a non-EU country, importing cleanly requires an EORI number, managing import VAT (20 %) and an A.TR certificate on every shipment. All of which become far simpler when you run them from a European base, with your own VAT number and your EORI.
That is exactly what Fenchell's Eurotrade pack does: a Bulgarian company that can be run 100 % remotely, with corporate tax at 10 %, among the lowest in the EU, the VAT number, the EORI and the infrastructure that makes the whole thing genuinely manageable from anywhere. A European base consistent with European supply.
An online seller who imports from Turkey and sells in the EU needs a European structure to hold the EORI, clear customs, recover import VAT and invoice cleanly. Bulgaria ticks these boxes with corporate tax among the lightest in the single market (10 %), the same time zone as Turkey and a shared border. See the guide: form a Bulgarian company remotely.
Source in Europe, invoice from Europe
The Eurotrade pack sets up your Bulgarian company remotely, with VAT, EORI and an infrastructure designed to run everything from home, from €890. The ideal tax base for European supply.
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General information up to date as of 14 July 2026, not constituting personalised legal, tax, customs or accounting advice. Minimum quantities, prices, lead times and logistics costs are indicative orders of magnitude, to be confirmed by quote with each supplier. Customs and tax regimes (low-value consignment reform, A.TR certificate, OSS/IOSS VAT thresholds) may change: always check the applicable texts and compliance (CE, sanitary, cosmetics) in the country of destination. Fenchell has no commercial affiliation with the vast majority of the manufacturers listed and receives no commission on your dealings with them. Fenchell Capital OOD, a Bulgarian firm based in Plovdiv (EIK 207945095).