According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), the unemployment rate in Turkey increased by 0.7 percentage points year on year to 13.4 percent in February this year and rose by 1.2 percentage points when compared to January.
Meanwhile, in February this year the employment rate in Turkey was recorded at 43.4 percent, decreasing by 0.1 percentage point compared to the same month of the previous year.