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Olive varieties, olive oil guide, harvest, storage and recipes from the Mediterranean kitchen.

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Olive Oil

The difference between extra virgin, virgin, refined and riviera; what acidity means, how cold pressing works and how to store oil.

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Table Olive Varieties

From Gemlik to Kalamata, Manzanilla to Castelvetrano: the world's best-known table olives and what each is good for.

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Stuffed Vine Leaves in Olive Oil

The head of the olive-oil dishes: rice filling rolled in vine leaves, cooked slowly with lemon and olive oil. Served cold.

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Why Is the Olive Branch a Symbol of Peace?

From the dove of the flood narrative to the emblem of the United Nations: how a tree branch has carried the same meaning for thousands of years.

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MARKET
Türkiye · Sızma 200,46 ₺ TL/kg · Nazilli borsa tescili 08.10.2026 · TOBB
Türkiye · Yağlık zeytin 38,00 ₺ TL/kg · Edremit borsa tescili 26.06.2026 · TOBB
Türkiye · Siyah salamura 150,00 ₺ TL/kg · Edremit borsa tescili 03.09.2026 · TOBB
İspanya · Sızma 3,43 € ▼ %0,5 €/kg · haftalık üretici fiyatı 04.10.2026 · EC Agri-food
Jaén · Sızma 3,42 € → %0,0 €/kg · haftalık üretici fiyatı 04.10.2026 · EC Agri-food
İtalya · Sızma 4,64 € ▼ %2,3 €/kg · haftalık üretici fiyatı 04.10.2026 · EC Agri-food
Bari · Sızma 4,55 € → %0,0 €/kg · haftalık üretici fiyatı 04.10.2026 · EC Agri-food
Euro / TL 55,1033 1 EUR karşılığı · ECB referans 09.10.2026 · ECB
Euro / Dolar 1,1206 1 EUR karşılığı · ECB referans 09.10.2026 · ECB
Dolar / TL 49,1730 çapraz kur · ECB kurlarından 09.10.2026 · ECB

Producer prices: European Commission Agri-food Data Portal (weekly). Exchange rates: European Central Bank (daily). Each figure carries its own date.

Analysis

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How did olive oil prices open the 2026/27 season? Article How did olive oil prices open the 2026/27 season? The first exchange registrations of October 2026 compared with the same weeks of the previous five seasons, in lira and euros: Edremit extra virgin is up 4% in lira and down 8% in euros; Spanish producer prices fell 20% in a year. The opening is thin, and Spain is the only major producer with an official supply figure. Is a bigger pack of olive oil really cheaper? Price per litre by bottle size and supermarket Article Is a bigger pack of olive oil really cheaper? Price per litre by bottle size and supermarket 43 olive oils in 7 Turkish chains on 10 October 2026: 2 litres are 4-9% cheaper per litre, 5 litres 21-24%. The median litre of extra virgin is 310 lira in five discount chains and 549.90 lira at Migros and Carrefour. How to read olive oil exchange prices Article How to read olive oil exchange prices Three exchanges, three averages for the same product: 201, 254 and 308 lira. In Nazilli, trades from 132.79 to 225.00 in a single day. What an exchange price measures, and why date and volume matter more than the average.

Olive

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The Olive: Tree, History, Production and Future Article The Olive: Tree, History, Production and Future The botany, history and uses of the olive tree; current production figures worldwide and in Turkey, provinces, varieties and the sector's future — with tables. The Olive Sector in Turkey: Structure, Exports and Challenges Article The Olive Sector in Turkey: Structure, Exports and Challenges Production, exports, business structure and price: the Turkish olive sector in figures, and where the chain breaks. Geographical Indication Olives and Olive Oils of Turkey Article Geographical Indication Olives and Olive Oils of Turkey Türkiye's registered olive and olive oil geographical indications: which product, which locality, under what conditions — and what registration means.

Olive Oil

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Olive Oil Fraud and Adulteration: How It Is Done and How It Is Caught Article Olive Oil Fraud and Adulteration: How It Is Done and How It Is Caught Seed oil blending, refined oil sold as extra virgin, soft deodorisation… The economics of fraud, the laboratory methods, and the home tests that do not work. How to Read an Olive Oil Label Article How to Read an Olive Oil Label Grade, harvest year, acidity, origin and bottling place: which statements on a label are binding and which are just marketing — with a quick checklist. Where does olive mill wastewater go? Lagoon rules and the two-phase option Article Where does olive mill wastewater go? Lagoon rules and the two-phase option When pressing starts, the dark liquid piling up behind the mill has one legal destination, and it is not the stream. Türkiye offers two lawful routes: switch to a two-phase system, or build a sealed evaporation lagoon. The lagoon's clay thickness, permeability, depth and area are all fixed by numbers in a ministry circular — worked example included.

History & Culture

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Where did olives come from? Origin and domestication Article Where did olives come from? Origin and domestication The olive was domesticated about 6,000 years ago in the Levant — but not at a single centre. Genetic work shows the cultivated olive kept mixing with the wild oleaster throughout its spread. Gemlik-Orhangazi Olive Festival, 10-13 September: what the registration says about the name Article Gemlik-Orhangazi Olive Festival, 10-13 September: what the registration says about the name Gemlik and Orhangazi are holding their olive festivals together for the first time, on 10-13 September 2026. Dropping “Gemlik Olive” from the name drew criticism. The registered area under record no 76 covers four districts: Gemlik, İznik, Orhangazi and Mudanya. The oil was a medicine: two thousand years of olive oil in medicine and folk practice Article The oil was a medicine: two thousand years of olive oil in medicine and folk practice For most of its history olive oil was not food but lamp fuel, soap, ointment and medicine. Rome's four grades are the ancestor of today's label — and much of what survives in folk medicine is two thousand years old.

Recipes

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Chard in Olive Oil Recipe Chard in Olive Oil Spinach's lesser-known relative: the stems and the leaves cook separately, and that separation defines the recipe. ⏱ 35 dakika Chickpeas in Olive Oil Recipe Chickpeas in Olive Oil The Mediterranean's meatless protein pairing in one pot: chickpeas and olive oil, with tomato and lemon, served cold. ⏱ 80 dakika Cauliflower in Olive Oil Recipe Cauliflower in Olive Oil Winter's cheapest vegetable meets olive oil: lemon keeps it white, and short cooking keeps the sulphur at bay. ⏱ 40 dakika

Health

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What does drinking olive oil on an empty stomach actually do? Article What does drinking olive oil on an empty stomach actually do? A spoonful of olive oil in the morning is a common habit, but there is no proven separate benefit to taking it on an empty stomach. What actually happens in the body, which claims have been measured and which are myth: the gallbladder, constipation, the calorie arithmetic and the truth about "liver flush" stones. When can babies have olive oil? Article When can babies have olive oil? Complementary feeding starts at the end of the sixth month, and olive oil has a place at that table — because a substantial share of an infant's energy has to come from fat. EFSA's reference intake for 6-12 months is 40% of energy. But two separate questions get mixed up: adding oil to a purée is not the same as giving olive oil for constipation, and a table olive is not olive oil as far as a baby is concerned. Can people with diabetes eat olives and olive oil? Article Can people with diabetes eat olives and olive oil? It looks like one question but contains two: table olives and olive oil. Neither is off limits in type 2 diabetes; olives carry too little carbohydrate to measure a glycaemic index for, and oil carries none. The real limiting factor is not blood sugar but the salt in the brine.

Plant Protection

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The olive pest calendar and intervention thresholds Article The olive pest calendar and intervention thresholds Month by month: which pest is at which stage, and when to count. Fly infestation thresholds, black scale shoot counts, and the three regional programmes for peacock spot. Herbicide-free weed management in olive groves: from cover crops to autonomous robots Article Herbicide-free weed management in olive groves: from cover crops to autonomous robots Managing weeds rather than eliminating them: cover crops, mulch, grazing, flame weeding and AI-assisted precision farming — five tools and a practical order for combining them. Weeds in the olive grove: bare soil is not the goal Article Weeds in the olive grove: bare soil is not the goal Johnson grass, Bermuda grass and fat hen. With perennials, ill-timed tillage spreads them while mowing stops the seed. Clean under the canopy, covered between rows.

Cultivation

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What is an olive harvest net, and how do you choose one? Article What is an olive harvest net, and how do you choose one? A net spread under the tree does two jobs at once: it keeps the fruit off the soil and it speeds up collection. Olives that touch the ground give higher-acidity oil, and fruit left on the ground feeds the next generation of olive fruit fly. Here is how to choose a net — material, weight, size — and how to lay it. Should harvested olives be carried in crates or in sacks? Article Should harvested olives be carried in crates or in sacks? The cheapest decision of the harvest season is also one of the decisions that sets the grade of the oil. Three separate defects in the International Olive Council's vocabulary are defined directly by how the fruit was held after picking — and all three describe what a sack does. How many kilos of olives does one tree yield? Article How many kilos of olives does one tree yield? Türkiye averaged 13.5 kilos per tree in the 2025/26 season. But the average describes nobody's grove: 20.3 kilos in İzmir, 3.5 kilos in Şanlıurfa. The same grove does not repeat its own number either — across six major provinces, per-tree yield went from 22.6 kilos one season to 8 kilos the next. Here is what the figure actually depends on, and how to place your own tree against it.

Sector News

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Osmaniye expects 107,000 tonnes: 3.5 times last season, in line with on-year averages Article Osmaniye expects 107,000 tonnes: 3.5 times last season, in line with on-year averages The governor's office in Osmaniye says the province's roughly 10 million olive trees are expected to yield more than 107,000 tonnes this year. That is 3.5 times last season — but 2025-2026 was an off year, and the forecast is consistent with on-year yields. Small discrepancies remain in tree counts and ranking. 5,300 litres of adulterated oil in one van at Köşk — more than all of September Article 5,300 litres of adulterated oil in one van at Köşk — more than all of September A van stopped on the Aydın-Denizli highway was found to be carrying 5,300 litres of counterfeit and adulterated olive oil, valued at 1.6 million lira; two people face proceedings. The single shipment exceeds the 4,063 litres seized across five operations in the province in the first half of September. Opening prices in Akhisar: 60 lira for double Domat, 10 lira for milling olives Article Opening prices in Akhisar: 60 lira for double Domat, 10 lira for milling olives The season's first purchase prices for Domat olives have formed in Akhisar: 15 to 60 lira a kilo by size, and 10 lira for fruit sold for milling. The local chamber of agriculture says prices are below last year's and has called for a joint table. Farm input costs rose 27.6% over the same period.

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