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The aim of this study; This is being done by the World Bank Logistics Performance Index since 2007, the assessment reveals Turkey's situation and identify the reasons for the poor performance shown. While our country has a very important logistics fleet and infrastructure, unfortunately our performance has decreased since 2007. Turkey ranked 34.th in 2007 and declined to 47th as of 2018. Countries that we can consider as competing countries, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria have made significant progress. Poland ranked 40th in 2007 and 28th in 2018. In our study, the criteria were evaluated under the headings and the things to be done in order to increase the performance criteria were stated. Turkey, when viewed in terms of geographical area is in a position where it has the potential to be a very important and logistics base. Unfortunately, however, it cannot assess this potential. Today, a logistics sector that works efficiently and offers economic prices can provide a competitive advantage to our companies, especially by providing a cost advantage for our export products, while also contributing to the development of our country. The institutions of our state and logistics companies should do in order to ensure that the sector cannot work efficiently and produce economic prices and that service quality is not sufficient is explained in our article. In addition, it affects the performance of the sector negatively in the quotas imposed on Turkish trucks by the EU in contradiction with the principle of free movement of goods. In spite of everything, our sector has a very important infrastructure and is able to carry its logistics performance to the top when it eliminates its own deficiencies despite the unfair competition applied by the EU. In this study, the criteria collected under 6 headings were evaluated and the requirements and deficiencies to be made in order to rise in the performance criteria were stated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]