Özet:

The carpet industry in Turkey has tried to meet the domestic and foreign market demands by producing and trading in two fields of hand-made carpets based on manual labor and machine-made carpets based on capital. The change in the production and competition conditions in the field of hand-made carpets in the 2000s led some local producers and traders to import carpets in order not to decrease their income, not to lose the existing revenue, and to increase profit and profitability. Manufacturers either shifted their production to the Far East, or produced carpets upon orders from these places??? and continued to make high amounts of trade for a period of time. The globalization of the world economy and the developing contract manufacturing method in countries where labor costs are low, such as those in the Far East, have been effective in this. In this process, the local hand-made carpet production has recently also come to an end point decreasing rapidly each year. The most important problems of hand-woven carpets are the costs of material and labor. However, although the hand-made carpet industry has developed new ways to improve exports and provide employment within the scope of re-evaluating old hand-woven carpets, the current situation of hand-made carpets is much worse than it was twenty years ago. In this article, the developments, problems, and expectations about the future of the hand-made carpet sector in Turkey since 2000 are discussed. For this, development plans, commercial data, sectoral publications, meetings, up-to-date information from Trademap, and sector representatives were used. Although there are surveys in the literature on the recent history of Turkey's local hand-made carpets, it is thought that this study is important in terms of being a general academic study, containing up-to-date information and giving place to sectoral recommendations.

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