According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), the unemployment rate in Turkey increased by 0.8 percentage points year on year to 10.2 percent in May this year, decreasing by 0.3 percentage points compared to the 10.5 percent recorded in April.
Meanwhile, in May the employment rate in Turkey was recorded at 47.7 percent, increasing 0.2 percentage points compared to the same month of the previous year.