How to verify a Turkish supplier before you order

Four checks, all of them free, all of them doable from a desk in an afternoon: the capacity report says what a factory can make, the registry gazette says the company exists and who runs it, MERSİS holds the registry record, and the legal name is the string all three are searched with. Together they settle whether a firm is real and what it is equipped to produce. None of them says the quality will be right.

1. Ask for the Kapasite Raporu

The capacity report is the single most useful document a Turkish manufacturer can send you. It is issued through the chambers under TOBB, it is valid for three years from the date of approval, and it sets out the firm’s annual production capacity, the raw materials that production uses, the machinery park, and the firm’s employment and capital.

Read it for three things. Does the machinery match what you are ordering — a panel line does not make upholstered seating. Does the annual capacity leave room for your order in your window. And does the headcount match the capacity claimed, because a plant producing at that rate needs people on the benches.

A firm must be a chamber member and registered with the trade registry to hold one at all, so a capacity report also answers the question underneath your first question. If a supplier cannot produce one, that is worth asking about: the document exists for exactly the use you are putting it to — import and export operations, official tenders, credit.

2. Read the registry gazette

Türkiye Ticaret Sicili Gazetesi publishes the registered events of every commercial company: formation, capital changes, address changes, who is appointed to manage it. Announcements from 1957 to the present are searchable, and certified copies can be obtained.

What to look for is a pattern rather than a single entry. A company incorporated last quarter, or one that has changed its registered address three times in two years, is a different risk from one that has filed steadily for fifteen years. Check that the people signing your contract are the people the gazette says can sign it.

3. Check MERSİS

MERSİS is the Ministry of Trade’s central registry system, holding company records electronically. It is the source the gazette entries sit on top of, and the place a registry number can be confirmed.

4. Use the legal name, not the brand

Almost every check above is a search, and a search only works with the registered legal name — diacritics, abbreviations, branch suffixes and all. A Turkish firm commonly trades under a brand that shares nothing with the name on its export declaration, which is why the legal name is set in a fixed face on every record in this index and why it is the string to copy. What SAN, TİC, A.Ş. and LTD.ŞTİ. mean — including which of them tells you the company is a trader rather than a maker.

The index holds 8,923 exporting firms with their legal names, their district, and the markets each one sells into, so the name can be taken from a record rather than from an email signature.

What none of this proves

Quality. No registry holds it. A sample, approved and retained, is the only version of this check that works.
That the factory you were shown is the factory that will produce. Sub-contracting is normal in İnegöl and is not in itself a problem — an undisclosed one is.
Compliance in your market. That is the importer's duty, not the maker's: EUDR for wood into the EU, GPSR for the responsible person, and CE marking, which furniture does not get and must not carry.
Financial standing. The gazette shows capital, not solvency. A credit report is a separate purchase.

The package to ask for in one email

Registered legal name, tax number and trade registry number.
Kapasite Raporu, current within three years.
Two references in your own market, with the year and the product.
Photographs of the line that will run your order, not of the showroom.
Bank details on letterhead, matching the legal name exactly.

A firm that sends all five in a day is telling you something about how it runs, before you have read any of it.

Sources4

Each link goes to the text the fact above was read from. Opened and read on 17 September 2026.

TOBB — Industry Division, capacity report What a Kapasite Raporu is, that it is valid for three years from approval, what it contains — annual capacity, raw materials, machinery park, employment and capital — and that a firm must be a chamber member registered with the trade registry to hold one.
Türkiye Ticaret Sicili Gazetesi The official registry gazette. Announcements from 1957 to the present can be read, saved and printed, and certified copies obtained.
T.C. Ticaret Bakanlığı — MERSİS The Ministry of Trade’s central registry system, where a company’s registry record is held electronically.
Türk Ticaret Kanunu no. 6102 Articles 124, 329 and 573 — the company forms behind A.Ş. and LTD.ŞTİ., and what each one means for liability.

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