The total export, which was launched on November 1 in the new season, increased by 231 percent to $37.2 million during a period of three months until end of January, according to a report by the Aegean Olive and Olive Oil Exporters Association on Turkey's olive oil export data.
The same export data last year amounted to only $11.2 million.
The largest share of Turkey's olive oil exports went to Spain with $10.2 million, followed by the United States with $9.4 million, Italy with $3.7 million and Saudi Arabia with $3.3 million.
The biggest export increase was seen in the U.S. market, which imported only $876,000 worth of olive oil in the same period last year.
The Turkish olive oil sector's income from Saudi Arabia also increased by 52 percent from $2.1 million last year to this year's $3.3 million.
