According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), the unemployment rate in Turkey rose by 0.5 percentage points year on year to 9.6 percent in June this year, also up 0.3 percentage points from 9.3 percent in May.
Meanwhile, in June the employment rate in Turkey increased to 47.1 percent, with a 0.4 percentage point rise compared to the same month of the previous year.