Animal sector in Turkey has changed considerably in the last few years. Although the most significant advancements have occurred in the poultry sector, the cattle and small ruminants sector could not achieve similar improvements. Reasons of the depression in the cattle and small ruminants sector are the lack of breeding animal materials and high quality feed sources, insufficient disease control, disorganized and small size of the animal farms, lack of infrastructure, poor education levels of agricultural workers, inadequate marketing and financing etc. In this paper, the levels of animal production and products in Turkey were compared with those observed in other regions of the world and European Union countries, and problems of the animal sector in Turkey and the strategies to their solutions were evaluated.