The International Istanbul Furniture Fair returns in the new year, opening on the nineteenth of January and running for five days to the twenty third. The fair is unusual in that it occupies two venues in the same city at the same time, the Tuyap fairground at Buyukcekmece on the European side and the Istanbul Expo Center at Yesilkoy near the coast, with a separate organising company responsible for each site.
Tuyap Fairs and Exhibitions Organization organises the halls at its own fairground and MOS Fair organises the halls at the Yesilkoy venue. The Furniture Associations Federation of Turkiye is listed as a supporter rather than as an organiser. Both the organiser's own fair pages and the Tuyap Istanbul fair calendar state the same opening and closing days, and both describe the dual venue arrangement in the same terms.
The product profile the organiser publishes covers modern and modular furniture, luxury furniture, office furniture, school and educational furniture, nursery and children's furniture, garden furniture, beds, accessories and upholstery fabrics, with lighting also exhibited at the Tuyap halls. The buyer profile is retail chains, contract and hospitality buyers, project specifiers and distributors, which is the audience that makes the fair a sourcing stop for Gulf hotel and residential developers.
The organiser states that the previous edition drew 132,912 visitors in total, and sets a target for the coming edition of more than thirty thousand overseas trade visitors from more than one hundred and fifty countries. That second figure is a stated target rather than a result. The organiser's own pages carry inconsistent exhibitor and brand counts across different sections, and a separate line giving a foreign buyer figure is attributed to the wrong year on the page itself, so neither is reported here.
No edition number is published on either surface read, so none is given. The fair sits in a Tuyap winter calendar that also carries a carpet and flooring expo in the same month, with the furniture fair the larger of the two by hall count.
