World's second biggest household textiles fair opens in Istanbul

The 14th Household Textiles Fair began yesterday in Istanbul. Delivering a speech at the opening of the fair, Sate Minister for foreign trade Kursad Tuzmen said that Turkey's exports gain in the five months of this year reached $50 billion and that the fair indicated that Turkish textile industry would have a brilliant future. Stressing that over 700 firms from the world's textile industry attended the fair, Tuzmen also said that the textile industry would highly contribute to Turkey's export gains in the years to come.