E-commerce giant Amazon opened its first logistics base in Turkey. It has been announced that the base will create 1000 jobs in a year.
The world’s giant e-commerce platform Amazon, which entered the Turkish market in September 2018, has completed an important investment in Turkey today. Amazon opened its first logistics base in Turkey in Tuzla, Istanbul. With an investment of more than 100 million dollars The logistics base, which has become operational, will help meet the increasing customer demand.
Amazon’s first logistics base will also be an important employment area for Turkey. According to the shared information, Amazon has recruited warehouse operators in fields such as engineering, human resources, accounting, occupational health and safety and computing, and warehouse operators to work at the base in the past 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 opportunity to work with competitive salaries
“I am happy to announce that we have opened our first logistics base in Turkey today. We will create more than a thousand new jobs in a year with our new logistics base, which will provide job opportunities for many roles, from engineers and IT specialists to teams responsible for selecting, storing and shipping products. Our employees will have the opportunity to work with competitive salaries.”
In addition, according to other shared information, employees will also be able to benefit from employee discounts available at Amazon.com.tr, additional health, life and accident insurance, and extended parental leave.
Amazon SMB affiliates increased more than 50% in one year:
How much Amazon has increased its dominance in Turkey was seen together with other data shared by the company. Number of SME sales partners increased by more than 50% compared to the previous year. and shared that it exceeded 25 thousand. In addition, SMEs have also created employment for more than 35 thousand people in Turkey to support their online businesses. Export sales of SMEs increased more than 2 times in 2021 compared to 2020 and exceeded 300 million euros.