Istanbul has made $52.21 billion worth of exports, accounting for around 42 percent of total Turkish exports in ten months.
Fourteen Turkish provinces made over a billion dollars worth of exports each in the first ten months of 2013, according to the data of Turkish Exporters’ Assembly (TIM).
Turkey’s Istanbul province has made $52.21 billion worth of exports, accounting for around 42 percent of total Turkish exports in ten months as Turkish exports hit 124,35 billion dollars in the January-October 2013 period.
Bursa province with $10.67 billion and Kocaeli province with $10.56 billion took the second and third place respectively and have made over $10 billion dollars of exports in the first ten months of 2013.
Turkish capital Ankara ranked fourth with $5.89 billion worth of exports after Izmir with $7.29 billion in exports in 10 months.
Turkish provinces that made over a billion dollars worth of exports in the period January-October 2013 are as follows:
| Province | Exports (thousand dolars) |
| 1-Istanbul | 52,216,215 |
| 2-Bursa | 10,675,681 |
| 3-Kocaeli | 10,564,942 |
| 4-Izmir | 7,299,247 |
| 5-Ankara | 5,895,770 |
| 6-Gaziantep | 5,276,810 |
| 7-Manisa | 3,255,267 |
| 8-Denizli | 2,498,371 |
| 9-Sakarya | 1,804,912 |
| 10-Hatay | 1,636,376 |
| 11-Adana | 1,523,329 |
| 12-Kayseri | 1,427,664 |
| 13-Konya | 1,117,591 |
| 14-Mersin | 1,084,651 |
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