first quarter of 2025, Turkey's GDP grew by 2%, 3.4 percentage points slower than same period last year, government expenditure and fixed asset investment slowed down, and the government's expected economic growth in the second quarter also fell short of expectations. Affected by this, from January to April 2025, Turkey's domestic cement sales reached 20.598 million tons, down 2.44%, and domestic demand shrank slightly.
In addition to the main areas of post-disaster reconstruction in Southeast Anatolia and the Mediterranean, cement sales in other regions showed a significant shrinking trend. The second largest consumer market, Marmara, sold 4.1396 million tons of cement from January to April, down 14.49% from the same period last year. Cement sales in the Aegean and Black Sea regions also fell by more than 17%.