Gaziantep Carpet Fair (Gaziantep Hali Fuari)

The Gaziantep Carpet Fair is TUYAP's Turkish carpet and floor-coverings trade fair, staged in Gaziantep - Turkiye's carpet-manufacturing capital - in cooperation with the Gaziantep Chamber of Commerce and with the support of the Southeast Anatolia Carpet Exporters' Association (GAHIB), the Gaziantep Carpetmakers' and Weavers' Chamber, the Gaziantep Governorate and the Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality.

Last confirmed editions in Gaziantep

• 1st edition: 28-31 May 2024, Gaziantep Ortadogu Fuar Merkezi (OFM). Opening hours 10:00-18:00 on 28-30 May and 10:00-17:00 on 31 May. 150 companies and company representatives from 6 countries took part; 13,805 visitors (12,050 domestic, 1,755 international).
• 2nd edition: 20-23 May 2025, Gaziantep Ortadogu Fuar Merkezi (OFM), Gaziantep.

Product scope

Hand-made carpets and rugs, machine-made carpets, rugs and mats, prayer rugs, textile floor coverings (wall-to-wall), fibres, yarns and textiles, textile machinery and accessories.

Relocation and rebrand

No further Gaziantep edition has been announced. The fair's former official domain gaziantephalifuari.com now 301-redirects to icfexpo.com: TUYAP's carpet fair has moved to Istanbul and continues as the International Carpet and Flooring Expo (ICFE) at the IFM Istanbul Expo Center, Yesilkoy, Bakirkoy, Istanbul - next edition 6-9 January 2027. ICFE 2026 recorded 445 exhibitors, 31,000 visitors, exhibitors from 21 countries and buyers from 127 countries.

Data note

This record's stored websiteUrl previously pointed at a DOMOTEX Middle East page on domotex.de (domotexturkey.com 301-redirects to that same page). That page is now HTTP 404 and belongs to a different organiser's brand (Deutsche Messe), which has dropped DOMOTEX Turkey / Middle East from its portfolio; it was not this event's official site.

Official successor website: https://www.icfexpo.com/en