Wholesale Olive Oil Suppliers in Turkey

Turkish olive oil: Aegean production, key varieties, and major suppliers

Turkey cultivates approximately 900,000–1,000,000 hectares of olive groves and produces 200,000–400,000 tonnes of olive oil annually (significant year-to-year variation due to biennial bearing). Turkey has the world's largest olive tree population (~100+ million trees), though many are older trees of lower productivity than modern high-density Spanish plantations. Key production regions: the Aegean region accounts for approximately 70–75% of Turkish olive oil production. Aydın province is the most important single olive oil province (Germencik, Nazilli, Söke, Kuyucak sub-districts); İzmir province (Akhisar — important for both table olives and oil; Torbalı, Kiraz, Ödemiş); Muğla province (Milas, Ortaca — with distinctive characterful olive varieties including memecik and uslu); Balıkesir province (Edremit Gulf area — home to Turkey's most renowned premium olive oil, Edremit körfezi olive oil from the ayvalık variety). The Marmara region (Bursa, Yalova, Kocaeli — primarily for table olives and smaller oil volumes) and the Mediterranean region (Mersin, Adana, Hatay — where Antakya/Hatay has a distinct olive oil culture, particularly the village of Harbiye known for late-harvest olive oil) are secondary production areas. Key Turkish olive varieties: memecik (dominant variety in Aegean — approximately 60% of Turkish olive oil production); ayvalık (Edremit Gulf area — premium variety producing a peppery, herbaceous EVOO highly regarded in Turkey and the EU); gemlik (Marmara region — primarily for table olives but some oil production); uslu (Muğla — produces a mild, low-acidity EVOO); and nizip yağlık (Gaziantep, southeastern Turkey). Major Turkish olive oil suppliers: Tariş Zeytin ve Zeytinyağı Birliği (Tariş — the largest Turkish agricultural cooperative union for olive oil, headquartered in İzmir; the largest Turkish olive oil exporter, with significant foreign market presence including EU and US); Komili Gıda (Komili brand — Turkey's best-known consumer olive oil brand, now owned by Anadolu Efes/Sabancı Group); Marmarabirlik (cooperative — primarily table olives but also olive oil production); Dalan A.Ş. (major Turkish olive oil exporter); and numerous Aydın and İzmir region private producers.