Pulp mills and sawmills in Turkey
WoodComp tracks 1 operating pulp mill and 1 sawmill in Turkey, with capacity, status and location as open data. Turkey holds 22.8 M ha of forest, 30 % of its land area, led by Black pine and Turkish red pine.
Wood supply
- Forest area
- 22.8 M ha 30 % of land area
- Standing volume
- 1.8 bn m3 growing stock, over bark
- Industrial roundwood
- 23.2 M m3/y production
Forest types
share of forest area- Naturally regenerating 96.7 % · 22.1 M ha
- Plantation 3.3 % · 755 010 haone or two species, one age class
Tree species
share of growing stock- Black pine 23.3 %
- Turkish red pine 20.5 %
- Beech 20.4 %
- Scots pine 9.2 %
- Oak 8.9 %
- Other species 17.6 %
All 15 reported species
- Black pine23.3 %401 M m3furnish of 3 local facilitiesPinus nigra
- Turkish red pine20.5 %354 M m3furnish of 3 local facilitiesPinus brutia
- Beech20.4 %352 M m3Fagus orientalis
- Scots pine9.2 %159 M m3furnish of 3 local facilitiesPinus sylvestris
- Oak8.9 %154 M m3Quercus spp.
- Fir7.1 %122 M m3furnish of 1 local facilityAbies spp.
- Spruce4.5 %77 M m3Picea spp.
- Juniperus2.0 %35 M m3Juniperus spp.
- Cedrus1.5 %25 M m3Cedrus libani
- Alder0.7 %12 M m3Alnus spp.
- Maritime pineintroduced0.3 %6 M m3furnish of 3 local facilitiesPinus pinaster
- Eucalyptusintroduced0.0 %0 M m3Eucalyptus spp.
- Monterey pineintroduced0.0 %0 M m3furnish of 3 local facilitiesPinus radiata
- Elderica pineintroduced0.0 %0 M m3furnish of 3 local facilitiesPinus elderica
- Douglas firintroduced0.0 %0 M m3Pseudotsuga menziesii
Introduced species hold 0.3 % of the reported growing stock. FAO ranks the ten largest native and five largest introduced species, together 98.5 % of the total.
The facilities on this page report Pine (3) and Fir (1) as furnish. The species matching that demand hold 60.5 % of the growing stock. Removals by species are not reported internationally, so this is a comparison of demand and standing forest, not a balance.
Forest, species and production figures: FAO FRA 2025 and FAOSTAT (2024-2025).
Key figures
- Pulp mills
- 1
- Sawmills
- 1
- Operating
- 19
- Operating pulp capacity
- 0
- Sawn timber capacity
- -
Capacity is the sum over 0 of 1 operating pulp mills with a reported capacity (t/y). Sawn timber capacity covers 0 of 1 operating sawmills with a reported figure. Data last updated 2026-11-03.
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