GOTS is pleased to announce Elif Yaraşık as the regional representative in Turkey. Turkey is the country with the second most GOTS certified facilities worldwide (469 in 2015) which makes it a very important sourcing market.Previously Elif has worked in textile both in manufacturing and sourcing industry since 1993, among others for Turkey offices of Nike, Hanesbrands, Next and Puma and for big vertical garment suppliers of Turkey. She has an extensive experience on understanding manufacturing and sourcing side of business in addition to technical side. Her main expertise is the implementation and managing the ecological, environmental, social compliance requirements of textile suppliers as per brand specific requirements which includes global legislations. Certification management in supply chain in correlation with buying/sourcing decisions also taking consideration the manufacturing possibilities is another achievement on her carrier. She also has technical experience for process and quality testing, dying and finishing of fabrics addition to project management for sourcing the machineries and process efficiency in dye-houses.
Elif holds a bachelor degree as a Chemist from Middle East Technical University.