Our prior target is to raise this number to 100,000," Turkish State Minister Kursad Tuzmen told A.A correspondent on Sunday.

Tuzmen said there were only 31,000 exporter companies in Turkey in 2002.
"I hope we can achieve our prior target (to have 100,000 exporter companies) in the following eight or ten years;" he told.
On the other hand, Tuzmen said Turkey has earned 102 billion USD from its exports since the beginning of 2007.

"The 12-month exports are over 106 billion USD," he told.
Tuzmen said small and medium scale enterprises (KOBIs) can export to neighboring and surrounding countries.
"Our target is to make all small and medium scale enterprises an exporter firm," he told.

Below is the number of Turkish exporter companies between 2000 and 2007:

YEAR NUMBER OF COMPANY
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2000 25,031
2001 28,909
2002 31,719
2003 35,587
2004 39,432
2005 42,138
2006 44,159
2007 45,302