Yapı Fuarı – Turkeybuild İstanbul Included in 50% State Incentive Program This Year Too

Turkeybuild Istanbul, the region's largest and the world's fifth-largest building fair, will open its doors for the 42nd time this year from 18-22 June. The Building Fair – Turkeybuild Istanbul, which has been the only fair in Turkey's construction sector to benefit from state incentives for the past 3 years and is receiving 50 per cent state support this year, will welcome participants in the fields of building, construction materials and technologies. The fair, which has hosted many industry firsts over the years, continues to provide significant contributions to both the sector and the country's economy. The Building Fair – Turkeybuild Istanbul, the largest in the broad region covering the Balkans, CIS countries, Middle East and North Africa, and ranking in the world's top 5 in building, construction materials and technologies fairs, will host visitors at the Tuyap Fair and Congress Centre.

The Building Fair – Turkeybuild Istanbul, which has created added value in Turkey's locomotive sector, construction, for 42 years, offering new business opportunities and enabling sectoral knowledge sharing with increasingly rich content each year and opening new horizons for its participants, continues to deliver plus value to the country's economy.

This year, the 2019 agendas of the building and materials sector will be addressed in sessions spanning 5 days under the triangle of "Exports, Renovation and Technology". At the meeting, which is expected to become a tradition with the platform offered by the Building Fair – Turkeybuild Istanbul each year, the sector's year will be evaluated from materials, construction, economics and planning perspectives, future projections will be discussed, messages will be delivered from the fair's opening day, and topics where local government and state policies are examined will be on the agenda. Last year's Building Fair – Turkeybuild 2018, featuring 30 events and 93 expert speakers, achieved a 26 per cent increase in international visitors from 101 countries. While the fair hosted over 7,000 international visitors last year, more than 11,000 international visitors are expected this year. Aiming to offset the sluggishness in the domestic market with professional buyers brought from abroad and to be the right address for exports in the sector, the fair will organize Buyer Delegation Programmes, as it does every year. Within the scope of buyer delegation programmes to be implemented in cooperation with the Turkish Ministry of Commerce, Chambers of Commerce and Associations, this year from countries such as Germany, Iran, USA, Iraq, United Kingdom, Israel, Algeria, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Russia, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, Spain, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Norway, Morocco, Austria, North Macedonia, Pakistan, Albania, Serbia, Italy, UAE, France, Romania, Belgium and Netherlands, over 500 foreign buyers will meet with participants including over 200 domestic buyers from Turkey.

About ITE Turkey

ITE Turkey is the Turkey office of ITE Group, an international exhibition company with 32 offices in 20 countries and over 1,000 experienced personnel, organizing 150 fairs and conferences worldwide annually. ITE Turkey, which organizes leading fairs in Turkey's leading sectors, comprises YEM Exhibitions, EUF - E International Fair Promotion Services and Platform International Exhibitions. Organizing Turkey's leading fairs in the building, tourism, cosmetics, food, rail systems and logistics sectors, ITE Turkey draws its strength from its experience in Turkey and the region as well as the global network of ITE Group, of which it is part. By transferring its strong global network in the exhibition sector to each sector it is part of, ITE Turkey creates new business, cooperation and purchasing opportunities at the fairs it organizes, contributing to the development of these sectors. www.ite-turkey.com

About EUF – E International Fair Promotion Services

EUF - E International Fair Promotion Services Inc., which is part of ITE Turkey, has been organizing fairs in the energy, construction machinery, food, furniture, stationery, promotion, water and wastewater treatment, tourism, rail systems and logistics sectors since 1999. With the support of the global knowledge network, experience and global partnerships of international exhibition company ITE Group, EUF Inc.; EMITT (East Mediterranean International Travel and Tourism Fair), EURASIA RAIL (International Railway, Light Rail Systems, Infrastructure and Logistics Fair) and WORLDFOOD ISTANBUL (International Food Products and Technologies Fair) are implemented.