President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Türkiye reached a historic milestone in foreign trade, recording total goods and services exports of $395.9 billion in 2025.
Speaking at the Turkish Exporters Assembly in Istanbul on Friday, Erdogan congratulated the country's top exporting companies and emphasised the hard work required to achieve such success.
He noted that the country achieved 3.6 percent economic growth in 2025 despite global tensions, followed by 2.5 percent expansion in the first quarter of 2026.
The country carried its uninterrupted growth performance into the last 23 quarters, Erdogan added.
The president highlighted that the volume of goods exports soared to $273.3 billion in 2025 from just $36 billion in 2002.
Services exports also experienced massive growth over the same period, jumping from $14 billion to $122.6 billion last year.
Türkiye increased its share of global goods exports to 1.04 percent from 0.55 percent, and its share of global services exports to 1.28 percent from 0.89 percent.
Erdogan pointed to significant advances in technology exports, with mid-high and high-tech product sales rising from $10 billion in 2002 to $112 billion in 2025.
Annualised mid-high and high-tech manufacturing exports reached $114.4 billion, he added.
Touching on the defence and aviation sectors, he said exports rose by 29.5 percent in the first five months of the year to reach $3.86 billion.
The country elevated its defence industry from generating $248 million annually to reaching $992 million in monthly exports, Erdogan remarked.
"We are now doing in one week the export we used to do in one year," he emphasised.
Stressing the nation's changing global position, Erdogan said Türkiye is no longer an introverted country but a respected state capable of establishing relations on an equal footing.
The government and private sector will continue working hand in hand to raise the country's export targets even higher in this new era, he concluded.
