CSRD does not bind Turkish companies directly — but it affects everyone linked to the European market. If your customer is an EU company, they are required to include your data in their own report.

The timeline is phased: large EU companies report from the 2025 financial year onwards, with scope expanding downward from there. Thresholds for non-EU parent companies also come into effect in subsequent years. The assumption that "this doesn't concern us" becomes more fragile with every passing year.

The three gaps typically found in Turkish exporters are: organisational boundaries that are not clearly defined, Scope 3 data that has never been collected, and reported figures that have no audit trail. All three take time — they cannot be left to the last month.

The good news: CSRD is essentially built on top of a solid carbon inventory. If your inventory is robust, reporting becomes a formatting problem, not a discovery exercise.

Data infrastructure checklist
Are organisational boundaries documented? Is the Scope 1-2-3 split applied consistently? Can every figure be traced back to a source? If all three are "yes", CSRD is a translation exercise for you — not an exploration exercise.

— Ayşe, May 2026