According to our Smartphone Model Tracker (SMT) service, Vestel and General Mobile accounted for 6 of the top-30 best-selling smartphone models in Turkey in the first half of 2017. Turkish consumers increasingly like Turkish models from Turkish brands.

Vestel and General Mobile are both headquartered in Turkey and a sign of how the smartphone industry is both globalizing and localizing at the same time. Lots of foreign smartphone vendors play in Turkey, such as Apple iPhone, but there is equally rising demand for domestic brands. Other countries with similar trends include China and France.

Learn more on Turkey, Vestel and General Mobile here.