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JEWELERY SECTOR AND ITS STATUS IN CITY OF GAZİANTEP ABSTRACT Jewelry maintain its presence by development from past to present that is an economic activity as well as cultural. Plenty of metallic and nonmetallic materials are used in jewelry that the biggest part of these materials is gold. This sector has thousands years background that shows a great improvement in Turkey throughout the historic process. Especially, City of Gaziantep depict the same improvement on jewelry sector. Situation of import and export in the sector also is evaluated. In this work, development of jewelry sector is generally examined in Turkey and particularly in city of Gaziantep. After interviews results were evaluated, what needs to be done for solving sector problems and improvement in city of Gaziantep was presented. The maps have been produced by ArcGIS 10.2 software to show spatial distributions of jewelers and their location intensity in City of Gaziantep. Key Words: Gold, jewelry sector, jewelry, Gaziantep [email protected]

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