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Turkey’s September exports rose 15.3% to a record for the month
Turkey’s exports rose 15.3% in September from the same month a year earlier, reaching $25.97 billion.
Trade Minister Ömer Bolat said this was the country’s highest September total and its second-highest monthly export figure on record.
Exports reached a nine-month record of $210.95 billion, up 5.2% from the same period last year.
The figures cover Turkey’s trade in goods, while the minister also gave separate totals for imports and the trade gap.
September’s trade deficit fell 25.8% to $5.16 billion, as exports grew faster than imports.
Bolat said annualized exports had exceeded the government’s target for the year, and forecast a current-account surplus of more than $2 billion for September.
Turkey aims to exceed $410 billion in goods and services exports by year-end, while supporting higher-value and technology-intensive products.
Turkey’s exports rose 15.3% year on year in September to $25.967 billion.
The figure was the highest September export total on record and the second-highest monthly total in the country’s history, Trade Minister Ömer Bolat said.
Exports in the first nine months of the year increased 5.2% to a record $210.952 billion.
September imports rose 5.6% year on year to $31.130 billion.
The trade deficit fell 25.8% in September to $5.163 billion.
- Who
- Turkey’s exporters; Trade Minister Ömer Bolat announced the figures.
- What
- Exports rose 15.3% year on year to $25.967 billion, a record for September.
- When
- September; the figures were published on October 28, 2026.
- Where
- Turkey.
- Why
- Bolat cited resilient exports despite regional wars, global difficulties and weak external demand.
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- September exports
- $25.967 billion
- Year-on-year export growth
- 15.3%
- First nine months’ exports
- $210.952 billion, up 5.2%
- September imports
- $31.130 billion, up 5.6%
- September trade deficit
- $5.163 billion, down 25.8%
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What people are saying
Despite regional wars and global difficulties, exports in the first nine months of the year rose 5.2% to a record 210 billion 952 million dollars.
The trade deficit in September fell by 25.8% to 5 billion 163 million dollars due to double-digit growth in exports and limited growth in imports.