TRAKYA BİRLİK HAS 48 COOPS AND 36 000 FARMER PARTNERS...
The impact of Trakya Birlik surpasses Turkey... Founded by the merger of three cooperatives and with a past of half a century, success of Trakya Birlik (Thrace Oil Seeds Agricultural Sales Cooperatives Union) was not just limited to Turkey, also took its place in a global list. Istanbul Chamber of Industry (ISO) "2018 Year of Turkey's Top 500 Industrial Enterprises List" showing the success its rank of 164, located as only Turkish coop in the World Watch List too. Trakya Birlik started its activities in 1966 with the gathering of Babaeski, Lüleburgaz and Edirne Oil Seeds Agriculture Sales cooperatives. Over the years, the union has expanded its influence in the region to the Aegean and Central Anatolia regions, and has grown rapidly with sunflower production and became one of the most important actors of the national economy. 48 cooperatives and 36 000 partners... Ahmet Akgün, Chairman of the Board of Thrace Union, told the AA correspondent that ...