{"id":523858,"date":"2026-07-13T13:18:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/523858\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:18:21","slug":"turkiyes-retail-sales-climb-13-7-pct-in-may-on-strong-non-food-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/523858\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s retail sales climb 13.7 pct in May on strong non-food demand"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISTANBUL \u00a0
\n\"T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s<\/p>\n

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T\u00fcrkiye<\/a>\u2019s retail<\/a> sales <\/a>volume increased 13.7 percent year-on-year in May, supported by strong growth in non-food purchases, official data showed on July 13.<\/p>\n

Non-food sales excluding automotive fuel rose 17.5 percent from a year earlier, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute (T\u00dc\u0130K).<\/p>\n

Sales of computers, books and telecommunications equipment recorded the strongest increase, climbing 23.5 percent, followed by a 17.6 percent rise in textiles, clothing and footwear.<\/p>\n

Mail-order and internet sales increased 16.2 percent, while sales of food, drinks and tobacco rose 9.1 percent. Automotive fuel sales grew 3.2 percent.<\/p>\n

Retail sales volume also increased 2.4 percent from the previous month.<\/p>\n

On a monthly basis, sales of computers, books and telecommunications equipment rose 3.7 percent, while textiles, clothing and footwear increased 2.9 percent.<\/p>\n

Despite the strength in retail activity, overall trade sales volume declined 1.4 percent annually, mainly due to a 7.8 percent fall in wholesale trade.<\/p>\n

Total trade sales increased 0.7 percent month-on-month, while wholesale trade sales fell 0.6 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ISTANBUL \u00a0 \u00a0 T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s retail sales volume increased 13.7 percent year-on-year in May, supported by strong growth in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69,644,667,73225],"class_list":["post-523858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-retail","tag-sales","tag-trkiye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}