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One of the world’s largest steel producers and exporters, making most of its steel from scrap in electric arc furnaces.
Turkey ranked seventh in worldsteel’s 2025 production table. Its mills export rebar, wire rod, billet and flat steel, much of it to the Middle East and Europe, and the country is a leading importer of ferrous scrap. Integrated works operate at Ereğli on the Black Sea and Iskenderun on the Mediterranean, and Karabük has one of the country’s oldest steelworks.
38.1 Mt in 2025 (36.9 Mt in 2024)
39.3 Mt of finished steel in 2025 (38.3 Mt in 2024)
Source: worldsteel, World Steel in Figures 2026. More figures on Steel statistics.
Who sets steel standards in Turkey, and the standard for reinforcing steel.
The Turkish Standards Institution (TSE), founded in 1960, is the only body authorised to set standards in Turkey. It also inspects imported products at customs, partly through the online TAREKS system.
Sources: US Trade.gov — Turkey standards for trade · TSE
The Turkish standard for steel reinforcement of concrete is TS 708, published by TSE (2016 edition).
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