Çaykur is a Turkish state-owned

tea Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of '' Camellia sinensis'', an evergreen shrub native to East Asia which probably originated in the borderlands of south-western China and nor ...

-producing company. Their portfolio includes ice tea,

green tea Green tea is a type of tea made from the leaves and buds of the '' Camellia sinensis'' that have not undergone the withering and oxidation process that creates oolong teas and black teas. Green tea originated in China in the late 1st millenn ...

, organic and

black tea Black tea (also literally translated as red tea from various East Asian languages) is a type of tea that is more tea processing, oxidized than oolong, yellow tea, yellow, white tea, white, and green tea, green teas. Black tea is generally st ...

. Çaykur has 45 tea processing factories, and one packaging factory. The general manager of Çaykur is Yusuf Ziya Alim. Tea production was also supported by the Republic of Turkey in the following years. The first tea crop was harvested in 1938 and the first tea factory was established in 1947. Since 1963, domestic production has replaced imports in meeting Turkey's tea consumption. Tea production activities were carried out by the State Agricultural Enterprises until 1948, and in cooperation with the General Directorate of Tekel and the Ministry of Agriculture between 1949 and 1973. On 4 February 2017, all state-owned stakes were handed over to the

Turkey Wealth Fund The Türkiye Wealth Fund (TWF; , TVF) is a sovereign wealth fund founded in August 2016 and owned by the Government of Turkey. As of 2023, TWF had over $317 billion in total assets. The fund is operated with a "Strategic Investment Plan", which w ...

. The firm is a sponsor of

Çaykur Rizespor Çaykur Rizespor Kulübü is a Turkish professional Association football, football club based in Rize, a city on the eastern Black Sea region, Black Sea coast. The team competes in the Süper Lig, the top tier of Football in Turkey, Turkish footba ...

football club.

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