SOUTHEAST ANATOLIAN EXPORTERS’ ASSOCIATIONS (GAIB)

The Exporters Associations have been established with the aim of contributing to the improvement of exports, carrying out export related transactions on behalf of their members and coordinating business activities and relations of exporters, finding solutions to their problems and providing guidance.

Exporters engaged in different sectors join exporters' associations depending on the type of their business operations. Each exporter’s association has a board of directors, whose members are elected by the exporters.

Southeast Anatolian Exporters Assc. were found in 1984 for the purpose of increasing export in Gaziantep and in Southeast Anatolia Region of Turkey. There are four exporters association within the General Secretariat of the Southeast Anatolian Exporters Associations, which is abbreviated to GAIB. GAIB has its headquarters in Gaziantep and renders its services to its active members via its liaison offices in Diyarbakır, Kahramanmaraş, Malatya, Mardin, Şanlıurfa, Adıyaman, Kilis, Cizre/Şırnak and Gaziantep Free Zone in the region.

The Exporters Unions within the organisation of GAIB are listed below;

• Cereals Pulses Oil Seeds and Products Exporters’ Assc. (Found in 1986)

• Dried Fruit and Products Exporters’ Assc. (Found in 1986)

• Textile and Raw Materials Exporters’ Assc. (Found in 1989)

• Carpet Exporters’ Assc. (Found in 2009)

Southeast Anatolia Region of Turkey has a natural advantage related to export stemmed from the regional product diversity. Especially, regional products like yarns, textile products machine made carpets, dried apricots, cereals (pasta, wheat flour) play a critical role for development of the region. 

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Address: Mücahitler Mh. Şehit Ertuğrul Polat Cd. No:3 Şehitkamil GAZİANTEP

Phone: +90 (342) 211 0500

Fax: +90 (342) 211 0509 - 10

E-Mail: gaib@gaib.org.tr

Web Site: www.gaib.org.tr