According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), the unemployment rate in Turkey increased by 0.5 percentage points year on year to 11.1 percent in August this year and rose by 0.3 percentage points when compared to July.
Meanwhile, in August this year the employment rate in Turkey was recorded at 48.3 percent, increasing by 0.3 percentage points compared to the same month of the previous year.