According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), the unemployment rate in Turkey increased by 1.9 percentage points year on year to 13 percent in January this year, increasing by 0.3 percentage points compared to the 12.7 percent recorded in December.
Meanwhile, in January the employment rate in Turkey was recorded at 44.8 percent, falling by 0.2 percentage points compared to the same month of the previous year.