Steel Suppliers, Exporters & Wholesalers in Turkey

Turkey’s steel market at a glance

Turkey is one of the world’s largest steel-producing nations, with annual crude steel output in the region of 36–37 million tonnes and a ranking around eighth globally. The sector rebounded strongly in 2024 after two softer years, lifted by infrastructure spending, post-earthquake reconstruction across the southeast, and renewed export demand. Domestic consumption, however, has been broadly flat to slightly lower, which pushes a growing share of production into export channels.

A defining feature of the Turkish industry is its reliance on the electric arc furnace (EAF) route, which accounts for roughly 70% of output. That makes Turkey one of the world’s largest importers of ferrous scrap, drawing heavily on flows from Europe and North America. Long products — particularly rebar and wire rod — dominate the EAF segment and feed the country’s construction and reconstruction pipeline, while integrated mills supply flat products for automotive, packaging and appliance manufacturing.

For buyers and traders, the practical picture is a market that is highly competitive on long products, sensitive to scrap and energy costs, and increasingly shaped by trade-defence measures. Turkey introduced anti-dumping duties on certain hot-rolled imports in 2024–2025, so import documentation, grade conformity and certification matter more than ever. The sections below map the official data sources, the major producers, the trade flows, and the price drivers you should track.

Official Turkish trade & statistics sources

Steel Rebar Germany is a direct wholesale rebar supplier & exporter — bulk B500B/Gr60 to Turkey at export prices, no middlemen. The organisations below are official government, customs & statistics sources only.

Verify market and import data at the primary source. The following Turkish government and standards bodies publish trade, customs, production and conformity data relevant to the steel sector:

• Ministry of Industry & Technology
  Industrial policy, manufacturing & investment programmes (Sanayi ve Teknoloji Bakanlığı).
  sanayi.gov.tr
• Ministry of Trade
  Foreign trade policy, import regimes & trade-defence (anti-dumping) measures.
  ticaret.gov.tr
• Turkish Customs (Gümrükler)
  Customs procedures & tariff administration, operated under the Ministry of Trade.
  ticaret.gov.tr/gumruk-islemleri
• TURKSTAT (TÜİK)
  Turkish Statistical Institute — official foreign-trade, production & industry statistics.
  tuik.gov.tr
• Turkish Standards Institution (TSE)
  National standards & conformity assessment, incl. reinforcing-steel standards (TS 708).
  tse.org.tr
• Invest in Türkiye
  Presidential investment office — sector data & industrial investment guidance.
  invest.gov.tr

For regional context, compare with our neighbouring market guides for steel suppliers in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and India.

Wholesale rebar supply to Turkey

Steel Rebar Germany is the direct wholesale supplier & exporter to Turkey — bulk B500B/Gr60 rebar, welded mesh, coils & cut-and-bend at export prices, mill-certified to BS 4449 / ASTM A615, no middlemen.

How steel moves in and out of Turkey

As a major exporter of long products, Turkey is a net seller of rebar and billet, but it remains a significant importer of ferrous scrap (the feedstock for its EAF mills) and selected flat and specialty products. Scrap arrives chiefly from the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States, while flat-product and semi-finished imports are sourced from a rotating mix of origins depending on price and trade measures.

The country’s steel logistics are concentrated around a handful of deep-water ports:

• İskenderun — the Mediterranean hub closest to the İsdemir and southeastern steel cluster; a primary bulk gateway for steel, scrap and coal.
• Mersin — major Mediterranean container and bulk port serving central and southern Anatolia.
• Aliağa (İzmir region) — the Aegean steel-and-scrap cluster, home to several EAF mills and import terminals.
• Gemlik / Marmara ports — serving the industrial northwest and the Dilovası mills.

For German and North European exporters, sea routes run from ports such as Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp and Rotterdam through the Mediterranean to İskenderun, Mersin or Aliağa — the same corridors that carry scrap into Turkey in the opposite direction.

What drives Turkish steel prices

Because most Turkish long-product mills run on scrap-fed EAFs, the single biggest price driver is the imported ferrous scrap price — the HMS 80:20 benchmark into Turkish ports is widely treated as a global reference. When scrap rises or falls, Turkish rebar and billet export offers tend to follow within days. Layer on top of that:

• Energy costs — electricity and natural-gas prices feed directly into EAF conversion costs.
• Currency — lira volatility affects domestic pricing and export competitiveness.
• Trade measures — anti-dumping duties and quotas (both Turkish and in destination markets such as the EU) reshape flows and premiums.
• Construction demand & reconstruction — earthquake-zone rebuilding and infrastructure projects support domestic rebar offtake.

We do not publish fixed price figures here because steel prices move daily; instead, track live assessments at SteelOrbis, Fastmarkets and Kallanish, and review production context from worldsteel. For a project-specific delivered price into a Turkish port, request a current quotation from our export desk.