According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), the unemployment rate in Turkey increased by 3.2 percentage points year on year to 12.9 percent in May this year and rose by 0.1 percentage point when compared to April.
Meanwhile, in May this year the employment rate in Turkey was recorded at 41.4 percent, decreasing by 4.7 percentage points compared to the same month of the previous year.