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 12.7 percent in December last year, increasing by 0.6 percentage points compared to the 12.1 percent recorded in November.
Meanwhile, in December the employment rate in Turkey was recorded at 45.1 percent, falling by 0.3 percentage points compared to the same month of the previous year.