Food Quality Knowledge Center
Practical guidance on inspecting, testing and sourcing food, produce and feed from Turkey: product inspection guides, food safety guides, export insights and a standards reference.
Turkish Harvest Calendar
Month by month supply windows for the main Turkish export crops.
Read moreQuality Standards Reference
The regulations, standards and trade rules that apply to Turkish food and feed exports.
Read moreCoverage Across Turkey
Production regions, export ports and the products we inspect in each region.
Read moreFood Safety Guides
Inspection, Audit, Testing or Certification: What a Food Buyer Gets
A practical explanation of the difference between product inspection, supplier audits, laboratory testing and accredited certification, and how buyers sourcing from Turkey should combine them.
Read guideReefer Container Loading: What a Supervisor Should Check
A practical checklist for supervising refrigerated container and truck loading of fresh, chilled and frozen food in Turkey.
Read guideProduct Inspection Guides
Aflatoxin Control for Turkish Hazelnuts, Pistachios and Dried Figs
Why aflatoxin results vary so much between samples, how EU sampling rules work, and the practical controls buyers should put in place when importing nuts and dried fruit from Turkey.
Read guideAQL Sampling Explained for Food Buyers
How ISO 2859-1 acceptance sampling works for packed food, how to choose AQL levels for critical, major and minor defects, and where AQL is the wrong tool.
Read guideIndustry Articles
FSVP for US Importers Sourcing Food from Turkey
How US importers can use onsite audits, sampling and testing in Turkey as supplier verification activities under the FDA Foreign Supplier Verification Programs rule.
Read guideEU Border Controls on Food from Turkey: How Importers Should Plan
How EU increased official controls and border rejections affect imports of Turkish fresh produce, nuts, dried fruit and spices, and what importers can do before shipment.
Read guideProduct inspection guides
Cherries
Turkey is the world's largest producer of sweet cherries.
Fresh Apricots
Turkey is the world's largest apricot producer.
Table Grapes
Manisa and the surrounding Aegean region produce Turkey's main export table grape, the seedless Sultani Çekirdeksiz, along with red and black varieties.
Pomegranates
Turkey is a leading pomegranate exporter, built largely on the Hicaznar variety, which offers deep red arils, good acidity and long storage life.
Lemons
Turkey is among the world's leading lemon exporters, with Mersin as the centre of production.
Tomatoes
Turkey is one of the world's largest tomato producers and a major fresh tomato exporter.
Peppers
Turkey grows a wide range of peppers, from blocky bell peppers to long Charleston, Kapia and hot types.
Dried Apricots
Turkey supplies the large majority of the world's dried apricots, almost all of them processed in and around Malatya.
Dried Figs
Turkey produces most of the world's dried figs, nearly all from the Büyük Menderes and Küçük Menderes valleys of Aydın and İzmir.
Sultana Raisins
Turkey is one of the world's leading raisin exporters, specialising in sultanas from the seedless Sultani Çekirdeksiz grape.
Hazelnuts
Turkey grows roughly two thirds of the world's hazelnuts along its Black Sea coast and supplies most of the global confectionery industry.
Pistachios
Turkish pistachios, known as Antep pistachios, are smaller and more intensely flavoured than many other origins.
Wheat
Turkey is a large wheat producer and one of the world's biggest wheat importers, because its flour and pasta industries export so much.
Wheat Flour
Turkey is regularly the world's largest wheat flour exporter, shipping to Iraq, Yemen, Africa and Asia.
Lentils
Turkey is a major red lentil producer and processor.
Olive Oil
Turkey is one of the world's larger olive oil producers, with distinct regional oils from the Aegean, Marmara and the Southeast.