According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), the unemployment rate in Turkey decreased 0.7 percentage points year on year to 10.6 percent in August this year, while decreasing 0.1 percentage point compared to the 10.7 percent recorded in July.
Meanwhile, in August the employment rate in Turkey was recorded at 48 percent, increasing 1.3 percentage points compared to the same month of the previous year.