Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek evaluated the June labor force statistics in a post on his social media account.
Şimşek stated that the unemployment rate fell to 7.6 percent, the lowest level in the series.
In the first half of the year, the seasonally adjusted average unemployment rate decreased by 0.3 percentage points annually to 8.1 percent.
Minister Şimşek emphasized that productivity growth is critical for Turkey to achieve its long-term development goals, and
In this direction, we will continue to implement policies that increase the efficiency of the labor market, strengthen the quality of our human capital, and support high value-added production.