“…Our findings were noticed that the frequency of isolation of L. monocytogenes was much lower. This observation also agrees with that of VardarÜnlü et al, (1998), Sağun et al, (2001), Aygun and Pehlivanlar, (2006), Taşçı et al, (2010), Abay et al, (2012), and Durmaz et al, (2015), who found 4% in Sivas, 1.2% in Van, 0% in Antakya, 2.4% in Burdur, 0% in Kayseri, and 2.2% in Şanlıurfa and Adıyaman, respectively. In other countries, as opposed to our study, the reported isolation rates of L. monocytogenes from raw milk samples were 16.7% in Brazil (Silva et al, 2003), 6.5% in United States (van Kessel et al, 2004), 4% in Iran (Jami et al, 2010), 22% in Ethiopia (Gebretsadik et al, 2011), 6.3% in Ireland (Fox et al, 2011), 41.6% in Syria (Al-Mariri et al, 2013), 21.7% in Malaysia (Jamali et al, 2013), and 16.6% in India (Nayak et al, 2015).…”