The world’s giant e-commerce platform Amazon, which entered the Turkish market in September 2018, made a significant investment in Turkey today. Amazon opened its first logistics base in Turkey in Tuzla, Istanbul. With an investment of over $100 million The logistics base, which has become operational, will help to meet increasing customer demand.

Amazon’s first logistics base will also be an important employment area for Turkey. According to the information shared, Amazon has recruited warehouse managers in areas such as engineering, human resources, accounting, occupational health and safety and computer science, and warehouse managers to work on the base in recent months. your base It will create more than a thousand new jobs in a year. announced.

Hakan Karadoğan, General Manager of Amazon Turkey Operations: There will be an opportunity to work with competitive salaries

“I am pleased to announce that today we have opened our first logistics base in Turkey. We will create more than a thousand new jobs in a year with our new logistics base, which provides jobs for many functions, from engineers and IT specialists to teams responsible for selecting, storing and shipping products. Our employees are given the opportunity to work with a competitive salary.”

In addition, according to other shared information, employees can also take advantage of employee discounts available on Amazon.com.tr, supplemental health, life and accident insurance, and extended parental leave.

Amazon SMB affiliates are up more than 50% in one year:

How much Amazon has increased its dominance in Turkey was revealed along with other data shared by the company. Number of SME sales partners increased more than 50% compared to last year. and shared that it exceeded 25 thousand. In addition, SMEs have also created employment for more than 35,000 people in Turkey to support their online businesses. The export turnover of SMEs in 2021 increased more than 2 times compared to 2020 and exceeded 300 million euros.