Türkiye's Ministry of Trade has published a comprehensive update to the state incentive system for services exporters. The new decision package revises subsidy ratios and ceiling limits across logistics, health tourism, education, information technology, architecture-engineering and film services. The regulation has been published in the Official Gazette and entered into force.
Logistics companies see expanded support for overseas office openings, warehouse construction and international operations centre investments. Incentive ratios and ceilings for international marketing, trade-fair participation and promotion costs have been raised; additional support categories were introduced specifically for operations build-out in distant geographies (Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, South-East Asia).
Health tourism gains broader financial support for international promotion, accreditation and patient-referral platforms. Education services see higher ceilings for Turkish schools abroad, online education platforms and remote higher-education programmes. The IT sector benefits from revised subsidy ratios for software exports, gaming and digital content production with related international marketing activities.
Supply chain takeaway: Türkiye's services exports surpassed USD 100 billion at end-2024; the logistics-segment uplift specifically helps Turkish forwarders building international networks to win global customers. Forwarders and 3PLs opening overseas operations centres can deliver close-to-customer service to foreign procurement buyers while offering integrated end-to-end solutions to Turkish exporters — a tangible competitive edge.
Key Takeaways:
1. Türkiye's Trade Ministry has published a comprehensive update to services-export state incentives, now in force via the Official Gazette.
2. Logistics support expanded for overseas offices, warehouses and operations centres; new line items target Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, South-East Asia.
3. Health tourism gains broader support for international promotion, accreditation and patient-referral platforms.
4. Education and IT sectors benefit from higher ceilings for overseas operations and digital marketing activities.
5. With Türkiye's services exports above USD 100bn, the update offers competitive uplift to Turkish forwarders and 3PLs building international networks.
