The Turkish home textile industry as a sub-sector of the huge Turkish textile industry which has a dominant role in the world has experienced significant progress in the last decade and met the high standards of the EU. The power of the Turkish home textile industry results from the huge textile industry in Turkey. Turkey has already invested heavily in its textile sector which is its spinning sector, in recent years. Turkey was the world's largest single investor in open end rotors and the second for short staple ring spindles in 1997. In recent years the production of home textiles has shown a steady increase due to the rise in both domestic and external demand for home textiles.