Sütaş Süt Ürünleri A.Ş (

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: ''Sütaş Dairy Products S.A.'') is a Turkish company that specializes in milk products such as

yogurt Yogurt (; , from tr, yoğurt, also spelled yoghurt, yogourt or yoghourt) is a food produced by bacterial fermentation of milk. The bacteria used to make yogurt are known as ''yogurt cultures''. Fermentation of sugars in the milk by these bac ...

ayran Ayran, doogh, dhallë, daw, xynogala or tan is a cold savory yogurt-based beverage popular across Western Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, Southeastern Europe, North Asia and Eastern Europe. The principal ingredients are yogurt, water and sa ...

, cheese, strained yogurt,

kaymak Kaymak, sarshir, or qashta/ashta ( fa, سَرشیر ) ( ar, قشطة or ar, قيمر ) is a creamy dairy food similar to clotted cream, made from the milk of water buffalo, cows, sheep, or goats in Central Asia, some Balkan countries, som ...

kefir Kefir ( ; also spelled as kephir or kefier; ; ; ) is a fermented milk drink similar to a thin yogurt or ayran that is made from kefir grains, a specific type of mesophilic symbiotic culture. The drink originated in the North Caucasus, in p ...

and

butter Butter is a dairy product made from the fat and protein components of churned cream. It is a semi-solid emulsion at room temperature, consisting of approximately 80% butterfat. It is used at room temperature as a spread, melted as a condimen ...

History

Sütaş was founded in 1975 in Bursa, Karacabey District, Uluabat settlement. The muhtar of the settlement, Celaleddin Yılmaz, got his first milk tender from Karacabey Stud in 1958. In 1968, Yılmaz bought the land of the nowadays Sütaş factory and turned it into a manufacturing shop. In 1961, he sold kasseri cheese in Beşiktaş and

Aksaray Aksaray (, Koine Greek: Ἀρχελαΐς ''Arhelays'', Medieval Greek: Κολώνεια ''Koloneya'', Ancient Greek: Γαρσάουρα ''Garsaura'') is a city in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey and the capital of Aksaray Province. In 202 ...

bazaars with the "Yılmaz Kasseris" branding. In 1975, his son Sadık Yılmaz established the Sütaş company. Sütaş has a total of four facilities, three in

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

, and one in

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. The company processes 900 million liters of milk every year and offers 77 types of products to its consumers.

Controversies

In July 2014, Sütaş fired 13 workers for being in a union while working in Sütaş. The workers protested this, and Sütaş allegedly poured

cow dung Cow dung, also known as cow pats, cow pies or cow manure, is the waste product ( faeces) of bovine animal species. These species include domestic cattle ("cows"), bison ("buffalo"), yak, and water buffalo. Cow dung is the undigested residu ...

on the ground. When this was exposed to the public, COB Muharrem Yılmaz resigned from TÜİSAD.{{Cite web, title=Sütaş'ın sahibini istifaya götüren fabrikanın önü, url=https://www.sabah.com.tr/video/turkiye/sutasin-sahibini-istifaya-goturen-fabrikanin-onu, url-status=live, access-date=2021-09-20, website=

Sabah Sabah () is a state of Malaysia located in northern Borneo, in the region of East Malaysia. Sabah borders the Malaysian state of Sarawak to the southwest and the North Kalimantan province of Indonesia to the south. The Federal Territory o ...

, language=tr

References

Companies of Turkey Companies based in Bursa Dairy products companies