GOTS is pleased to announce Elif Yarasik 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. Elif will be based in Istanbul and can be reached at [email protected]
About GOTS
The Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) was developed by leading international standard setters in order to define world-wide recognised requirements that ensure organic status of textiles, from harvesting of the raw materials, through environmentally and socially responsible manufacturing up to labelling – in order to provide credible assurance to the consumer.
The International Working Group on Global Organic Textile Standard is comprised of four reputed member organisations, namely OTA (USA), IVN (Germany), Soil Association (UK) and JOCA (Japan). They contribute to the GOTS, together with further international stakeholder organizations and experts, their respective expertise in organic farming and environmentally and socially responsible Textile processing.
The Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) is recognised as the leading processing standard for textiles made from organic fibres worldwide. It defines high level environmental criteria along the entire supply chain of organic textiles and requires compliance with social criteria as well.