Abstract:

Textile and ready-made clothing sector is one of the sectors that globalize in an advanced level due to employment it provides, value-added created by it during the manufacturing process and high share in export revenue. In this research, 5 international economic crises determined since the foundation of the Turkish Republic, Turkish textile and ready-made clothing sector have been examined depending on journal archives and export - import data. Economic crises emerged in the world between 1974 and 2008 from which Turkey has been affected as well have been examined by document analysis method, which is a qualitative data gathering method in this research. By this research, which has studied international economic crises occurred in fragile and vulnerable Turkish economy since 1974 as regards to reason, result, effects and which has aimed to detect their effects on textile and ready-made clothing sector. It has been realised that textile and ready-made clothing sector that is the locomotive sector of export of Turkey is the premier sector of the sectors those are being affected initially and directly from the negative developments in Turkish economy.

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