On April 25, 2015, Turkey’s Ministry of Customs and Trade published Regulation No.29337 concerning labeling of shoes. The new requirements entered into force on 25 April 2015 and apply to all kinds of footwear made available on the market by the distributor for retail sale to the consumer. Among others, second-hand or old shoes, protective footwear covered by the Personal Protective Equipment Regulation, and toy footwear are excluded from the scope of the new Regulation. The list reads as follows:

1) flat or high-heeled shoes for ordinary indoor or outdoor wear;

2) ankle-boots, half-boots, knee-boots, and thigh boots;

3) sandals of various types, 'espadrilles' (shoes with canvas uppers and soles of plaited vegetable material)

4) tennis shoes, running and other sports shoes

5) bathing sandals and other casual footwear

6) special sports footwear which is designed for a sporting activity and has, or has provision for the attachment of, spikes, studs, stops, clips, bars or the like and skating boots, ski boots and cross-country ski footwear, wrestling boots, boxing boots and cycling shoes, composite articles made up of footwear with (ice or roller) skates attached

7) dancing slippers

8) footwear formed from a single piece, particularly by moulding rubber or plastics, but excluding disposable articles of flimsy material (paper, plastic film, etc.) without applied soles;

9) overshoes worn over other footwear, which in some cases are heel-less;

10) disposable footwear, with applied soles, generally designed to be used only once;

11) orthopaedic and anatomic footwear.