According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), the unemployment rate in Turkey increased by 3.1 percentage points year on year to 13.5 percent in December last year and rose by 1.2 percentage points when compared to November.
Meanwhile, in December last year the employment rate in Turkey was recorded at 45.4 percent, decreasing by 1.5 percentage points compared to the same month of the previous year.