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The increases in their capacity compared to the previous periods indicate the rate of economic growth of those countries. Foreign trade generally covers international trade of goods. In addition, it covers service trade, investment income and expenditure, customs transactions, goods import and export. External trade pen is made up of export and import transactions. The main objective in foreign trade is to increase exports and imports. In this context, foreign trade policies have been established. The main motivation in foreign trade is to ensure economic growth and development. The foreign trade policy in the Turkish economy is divided into two different periods, before and after 1980. In the early 1980s, protection policy was implemented on the basis of import residence in foreign trade. This study focused on the relationship between import and economic growth and the economic analysis of the Turkish economy was carried out using the import and GDP quarterly data sets between the years 2000-2019. The Granger causality test was conducted to determine the direction of causality between the data.

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