Why does this page not give Turkish manufacturing output in euro?

Eurostat publishes the Turkish national accounts series in national currency and nominal terms. Converting a high-inflation lira series at one exchange rate would look precise and would not be. The value series stays in TRY; employment and capacity utilisation carry the direction.

How many manufacturing enterprises are there in Türkiye?

461,644 in 2023, 12.4% of all enterprises, from TÜİK annual industry and services statistics read through a press reproduction because TÜİK's own site could not be opened. A 2024 count is n/r.

Is Turkish industrial electricity getting more expensive?

In lira yes: 3.9187 TRY/kWh in 2025-S2 in band ID. In euro no: the same band fell from EUR 0.1856/kWh in 2022-S2 to EUR 0.0809/kWh in 2025-S2. The Eurostat series ends at 2025-S2, so there is no 2026 figure here.

How many Turkish manufacturers use AI?

7.0% in 2025 for manufacturing (Eurostat isoc_eb_ain2) against 17.3% for the EU-27. Across all activities it is 7.4% on Eurostat's vintage and 7.5% in TÜİK's own release of the same survey; quote one, not both.

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Country data · Türkiye · Eurostat, TCMB and labelled reproductions, extracted 22 September 2026

Türkiye: manufacturing output, jobs, productivity and costs in 2026

Lira figures and euro figures tell opposite stories about Turkish manufacturing. This page keeps them apart and says where the national statistics office could not be reached.

In shortTurkish manufacturing produced 9,731,870 million TRY of gross value added in 2025 at current prices (Eurostat nama_10_a10), while manufacturing employment fell 3.1% to 6,076,000 people. Capacity utilisation has sat at 73 to 74% for over a year. Hourly labour cost rose in both lira and euro; industrial electricity fell in euro to EUR 0.0809/kWh in 2025-S2.

Source warning, read this firstTurkStat (TÜİK) could not be reached on 22 September 2026. Every bulletin and table endpoint returned a JavaScript stub, so no figure here was read on TÜİK's own site. Turkish statistics appear through Eurostat, which republishes the Turkish submissions, or through labelled reproductions by KOSGEB, chambers of commerce or the press. Central bank, ministry and industry-association figures were read on their own sources.

Output: a lira series that says almost nothing

Year	Manufacturing gross value added, current prices
2023	5,274,343.7 m TRY
2024	7,509,594.6 m TRY
2025	9,731,870.1 m TRY

Source: Eurostat nama_10_a10, geo TR, nace_r2 C, na_item B1G, unit CP_MNAC, dataset last updated 21 September 2026. Nominal, not deflated.

Nominal growth was +29.6% in 2025, and Turkish inflation over the same period was of a similar order, so this series is mostly price. Do not present it as growth, and do not convert it to euro at a single year-end rate to compare with the EU figures elsewhere on this site.

Employment: down 195,400 people in one year

Year	Persons employed in manufacturing
2022	6,159,800
2023	6,244,900
2024	6,271,400
2025	6,076,000

Source: Eurostat lfsa_egan2, geo TR, nace_r2 C, sex T, age Y15-74, unit THS_PER, last updated 10 September 2026.

Manufacturing employment fell by 195,400 people, 3.1%, in 2025, the first decline in this series. That is a volume number, not a price number, and it is the most reliable single indicator of direction on this page.

Productivity: derived, and labelled as such

Why there is no clean productivity figure for TürkiyeEurostat's national accounts employment series (nama_10_a10_e) returns no values for Türkiye, so the employment figures above come from the labour force survey, a different collection. Dividing one by the other gives roughly 1.60 million TRY per person employed in 2025 (1.20 million in 2024). The two series are not designed to be divided: an order of magnitude, not a statistic.

One published figure exists for context: value added per employee of 615,000 TL and personnel cost per employee of 149,000 TL for medium-sized enterprises in 2023, from TÜİK's SME statistics as reproduced by KOSGEB. All enterprises, not manufacturing only, and nominal.

Enterprises and where they sit

461,644 manufacturing enterprises in 2023, 12.4% of all Turkish enterprises, with fabricated metal products (over 66,000), clothing (63,513), food (57,606), furniture (45,622) and machinery installation and repair (31,862) the largest activities by number of enterprises. These counts are reproductions read on a press column, not on TÜİK, and they rank by enterprise count rather than value added, so they are not comparable with the European sub-sector tables here. A 2024 count could not be obtained: n/r.

Capacity utilisation: 73 to 74% for over a year

Month	Capacity utilisation, seasonally adjusted	Establishments surveyed
September 2026	74.1% (74.2% raw)	1,982
August 2026	73.5%	2,012
July 2026	73.8%	n/r
August 2025	73.6%	n/r

Source: TCMB (Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye), İmalat Sanayi Kapasite Kullanım Oranı, business tendency survey. September 2026 read on the TCMB report; August 2026 via a press reproduction of the TCMB release.

Turkish manufacturing has run at about three quarters of capacity for more than a year. The constraint is not machines. An investment case built on adding capacity has to explain why the unused quarter cannot be recovered first.

Labour cost: two currencies, two stories

Manufacturing hourly labour cost, as Eurostat publishes it in both currencies
Year	Hourly labour cost, TRY	Hourly labour cost, EUR	Non-wage share
2022	63.9	3.7	14.8%
2023	138.5	5.4	18.5%
2024	266.6	7.5	16.7%
2025	369.7	8.2	16.5%

Source: Eurostat lc_lci_lev, geo TR, nace_r2 C, lcstruct D1_D4_MD5, dataset last updated 23 April 2026. Nominal.

In lira, hourly labour cost rose 38.7% in 2025 and is 5.8 times its 2022 level. In euro, the same series went from EUR 3.7 to EUR 8.2, up 122% in three years. Unlike electricity, labour cost rose sharply in both currencies. The historic Turkish labour-cost advantage against the EU is narrowing fast, although at EUR 8.2 an hour it is still about a quarter of the EU-27 figure of EUR 35.0 for 2025.

For payback arithmetic, use the employer cost, not the wage. The 2026 gross monthly minimum wage is 33,030.00 TL, but the total employer cost with the five-point manufacturing reduction is 39,223.13 TL per month per operator (Ministry of Labour and Social Security, 2026 sheet).

Electricity: falling in euro, rising in lira

Industrial electricity, band ID (2,000 to 19,999 MWh per year), excluding taxes and levies
Period	TRY/kWh	EUR/kWh
2022-S2	3.4405	0.1856
2023-S2	2.7400	0.0915
2024-S2	3.2834	0.0891
2025-S1	3.4259	0.0833
2025-S2	3.9187	0.0809

Source: Eurostat nrg_pc_205, geo TR, tax X_TAX, dataset last updated 11 August 2026. The series ends at 2025-S2.

Three things to keep straight1. Currency. In lira the price more than doubled between 2022-S1 and 2025-S2; in euro it more than halved, from EUR 0.1856 to EUR 0.0809. State the currency every time. 2. Tax basis. The Turkish series excludes taxes and levies, while the EU country pages here use the basis excluding VAT and other recoverable taxes, so EUR 0.0809 against the EU-27 EUR 0.1920 is indicative, not exact. 3. Year. The series stops at 2025-S2: no 2026 Turkish price here, n/r.

ERP and AI: the adoption base is thin

Türkiye, all activities except agriculture, mining and finance, percentage of enterprises
Indicator	10+ employees	50 to 249	250+
Enterprises running an ERP package, 2025	28.2%	45.9%	76.5%
Enterprises using at least one AI technology, 2025	7.4%	9.4%	23.5%
Enterprises using IoT for production processes, 2021	5.2%	8.1%	15.8%

Sources: Eurostat isoc_eb_iip (E_ERP1, last updated 27 February 2026), isoc_eb_ai (E_AI_TANY, last updated 15 June 2026) and isoc_eb_iot (E_IOTDPP, last updated 17 July 2025). These are all-sector aggregates, not manufacturing only.

ERP adoption at 28.2% has been flat to slightly down since 2023 (29.7%) and is under half even among firms with 50 to 249 employees. AI use is 7.4% on the Eurostat vintage and 7.5% in TÜİK's own release of the same survey: quote one, never both. For manufacturing, isoc_eb_ain2 gives 7.0% in 2025 (4.2% in 2024) against 17.3% for the EU-27.

TÜİK reports that the leading AI use case after marketing and sales is production and services at 41.1% of AI-using enterprises, and the top barrier is lack of in-house expertise, named by 74.2%. The IoT-for-production figure is five years old and all-sector: there is no current Turkish measurement of shop-floor IoT adoption here.

The automotive supplier base

Vehicle production reached 1,419,464 units in 2025, up 4%, with exports of 1,057,920 units worth USD 41.5 billion, up 12% and confirmed by the Ministry of Trade (OSD, full-year 2025).

The supplier association TAYSAD publishes 540+ member companies representing 85% of supplier-industry production, employing more than 250,000 people, with 81% in the Marmara region and 24% foreign capital participation. The page carries no date; the figures are quoted as published, read on 22 September 2026. A quarter of that base answers to a foreign parent that already runs machine-performance reporting elsewhere.

What this means for a plant in Türkiye

Never mix currencies in one argument. Labour is rising in both lira and euro. Electricity is rising in lira and falling in euro.
Capacity, not machines, is the gap. At 73 to 74% utilisation, the cheapest extra output is the quarter of the day you already pay for.
Price the operator at 39,223 TL a month. That is the 2026 all-in employer cost at minimum wage with the manufacturing reduction, not the gross wage.
Start with the data layer, not the model. 7.0% of manufacturers report any AI use and 28.2% of enterprises run an ERP. Machine state and stop reasons come first.
Above 1,000 TEP a year the energy rules already apply. A certified energy manager and a TÜRKAK-accredited TS EN ISO 50001 certificate are required, which is a measurement duty as much as a paperwork one.

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Why does this page not give Turkish manufacturing output in euro?: Eurostat publishes the Turkish national accounts series in national currency and nominal terms. Converting a high-inflation lira series at one exchange rate would look precise and would not be. The value series stays in TRY; employment and capacity utilisation carry the direction.
How many manufacturing enterprises are there in Türkiye?: 461,644 in 2023, 12.4% of all enterprises, from TÜİK annual industry and services statistics read through a press reproduction because TÜİK's own site could not be opened. A 2024 count is n/r.
Is Turkish industrial electricity getting more expensive?: In lira yes: 3.9187 TRY/kWh in 2025-S2 in band ID. In euro no: the same band fell from EUR 0.1856/kWh in 2022-S2 to EUR 0.0809/kWh in 2025-S2. The Eurostat series ends at 2025-S2, so there is no 2026 figure here.
How many Turkish manufacturers use AI?: 7.0% in 2025 for manufacturing (Eurostat isoc_eb_ain2) against 17.3% for the EU-27. Across all activities it is 7.4% on Eurostat's vintage and 7.5% in TÜİK's own release of the same survey; quote one, not both.

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