If you're sourcing clothing or garment manufacturers in Turkey, start with the knit. We're a Turkish knitwear factory in Gaziantep making sweaters, cardigans and WHOLEGARMENT to your design — outside China, UFLPA-clean, ~2 weeks to the US East Coast, from a 250-piece MOQ.
The phrase "clothing manufacturer in Turkey" hides an important distinction: Turkish factories specialise. Some cut and sew wovens, some do denim, some knit — and the best sweater doesn't come from a general house that brokers knitting out, it comes from a dedicated knit factory. That's us. We're a knitwear manufacturer in Gaziantep — Turkey's flat-knit hub — making sweaters, cardigans and WHOLEGARMENT to your design, on our own machines.
Honest, up front: if your range is wovens — shirts, trousers, denim — we're not your factory, and we'll point you elsewhere. If it's knit-led, using a Turkish manufacturer that lives in the knit category (rather than a general house that brokers it out) is the difference between a good sweater and a great one.
Turkish-made knitwear avoids the Section 301 duties stacked on Chinese apparel, and we knit on non-Xinjiang, OEKO-TEX / GOTS-certified yarns with traceable documentation — no frozen containers over UFLPA cotton detentions.
Ocean from Mersin / İskenderun reaches Savannah, New York/New Jersey and Charleston in roughly two weeks — versus four to five trans-Pacific. Air freight for samples and urgent top-ups. EXW, FOB or DDP.
Our factory is in Gaziantep, where Turkey's flat-knit sweater production is concentrated — 22 flat-knit machines (Shima Seiki incl. WHOLEGARMENT + Stoll), 3–14gg, 100,000 pieces a month, founder-led since 2010.
250 pieces per colour and per size, each size knitted as its own fully-fashioned programme. A real US knitwear production run, whether you're a startup, a DTC capsule or an established wholesale program.
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Our factory is in Gaziantep, Turkey's largest knitwear-manufacturing hub — not Istanbul. Istanbul has more cut-and-sew and showroom activity, but Gaziantep is where flat-knit sweater production is concentrated. We ship to US brands from Mersin/İskenderun ports, roughly two weeks to the US East Coast.
We're a knitwear specialist — the knit side of your range: sweaters, cardigans, knit tops, dresses, vests and accessories on flat-knit and WHOLEGARMENT machines. We don't cut-and-sew wovens (shirts, trousers, denim) in-house. Among clothing manufacturers in Turkey, we're the ones to use when your program is knit-led; jersey basics run through our vetted partner network.
For US brands, Turkey sits outside the Section 301 tariffs on Chinese apparel and offers UFLPA-clean, non-Xinjiang cotton — so a low Chinese unit price doesn't turn into a detained container. Ocean transit is ~2 weeks to the US East Coast versus 4–5 trans-Pacific. We won't pretend Turkish goods land duty-free — a baseline US tariff applies — but China stacks Section 301 on top. Confirm rates with your broker.
At Kiwi Giyim, 250 pieces per colour, per size — a real production run, each size its own fully-fashioned programme. That makes a genuine first production run workable for US startups and small brands, not just large importers.
Yes — factory-direct, founder-led, no agency in between. We handle export documentation, FTC fiber-content and care labeling, country-of-origin marking and CPSIA/Prop 65 support, in English, so your US customs and compliance review is a formality.
Send a tech pack, a reference sweater or a brief. We reply within one US business day with feasibility, indicative pricing and an honest read on whether Turkey — and a knit specialist — fits your program.