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Turkey’s annual inflation rate is almost 60 percent, finds research group
Shortly before the state agency TurkStat announced the official consumer inflation rate in Turkey in November 2021 as 21.31 percent, the Inflation Research Group (ENAG) had announced its own figure: 58.65 percent.
3 December 2021
Turkey's official inflation rate climbs to highest in three years
The annual inflation rate stood at 21.32 percent and the monthly inflation rate was 3.51 percent, according to the TurkStat.
3 December 2021
'Turkey is becoming a country of minimum wage earners'
As the government is poised to determine next year's minimum wage, the DİSK-AR points out the decrease in the income of weakness.
2 December 2021
‘We cannot make ends meet’: Public employees to hold rallies in 4 cities of Turkey
With the slogan “We cannot make ends meet”, the Confederation of Public Employees Trade Unions (KESK) will hold a rally in Diyarbakır and İzmir on December 8 and in İstanbul and Ankara on December 19.
2 December 2021
Erdoğan rules out agreement with IMF, confident that lira will gain value
The president has explained his "new economic model" and the country's "war of economic liberation" as Central Bank intervenes in the market to bring down foreign exchange rates.
1 December 2021
Turkish lira nears 14 to US dollar as Erdoğan speaks again
"We are refusing the policy of drawing hot money flow with high interest rates," the president has said.
1 December 2021
TurkStat: Turkey's GDP rises 7.4 percent in third quarter
Total value of goods and services stood at 225.5 billion dollars in the July-September period.
30 November 2021
Erdoğan insists interest rates cause inflation, cites his 'economics education'
Thanks to his low interest rate policies, the inflation rate will decrease by the next elections, the president has asserted.
29 November 2021
Protests ahead of minimum wage negotiations: ‘Don’t let it be a wage of misery’
The executives and members of the Progressive Land, Air and Railway Workers Union (Nakliyat-İş) organized a protest in İstanbul’s Taksim and demanded that the minimum wage be increased from 2,825 lira to 6,800 lira (~540 USD).
29 November 2021
White March | ‘Our salaries are below poverty line’
Bursa Medical Chamber Chair Alpaslan Türkkan has said, “While the number of applications per physician was 3.1 in 2002, this number increased to 9.8 in 2019 after the Transformation in Healthcare Program entered into force.”
26 November 2021
Miners protest in Thrace: ‘I cannot even buy shoes’
With their wages not paid for six months, mine workers have been protesting in Tekirdağ province: “No one knows what we are going through or how I am. I cannot even buy shoes for my feet on this winter day. They should be ashamed.”
25 November 2021
Police probe 271 social media accounts over ‘foreign exchange’ posts
The Directorate General of Security has announced that it has launched an inquiry against 271 social media accounts that posted messages about the rising exchange rates.
25 November 2021
'White March': Turkish Medical Association arrives in Kocaeli
TTB Chair Prof. Korur-Fincancı spoke in Kocaeli on the second day of the “White March”, expressing physicians’ determination to struggle until they get their rights. The Diyarbakır and İzmir Medical Chambers have expressed support for the march.
25 November 2021
‘Stop sacralizing teachers’ profession, develop solutions to their problems’
Education and Science Laborers’ Union (Eğitim-Sen) Chair Nejla Kurul has made a statement on the occasion of Teachers’ Day in Turkey.
24 November 2021
2-percent contribution to state channel TRT removed from electricity bills
Removing the Energy Fund Fee and the state channel TRT share from electricity bills means that an average bill of 228 lira will be reduced by 3.2 lira.
24 November 2021
Turkish Medical Association's ‘White March’ begins in İstanbul
With the Health Ministry not responding to its appointment request on October 1, The TTB decided to protest. Setting off on their “White March” in İstanbul, the TTB members are expected to arrive in the capital city of Ankara on November 27.
24 November 2021
'Refusing to reinstate Academics for Peace is unlawful'
Despite a top court ruling, the State of Emergency Commission has rejected the dismissed academics' applications for their reinstatement.
22 November 2021
‘Only in 2020, Turkey saw 12 thousand incidents of violence in healthcare'
Physicians have demanded a “law against violence in healthcare” by protesting in the provinces of Samsun, İstanbul, Ankara, Antalya, Antep, Batman, Bursa, Balıkesir, Diyarbakır, İzmir, Kocaeli and Muğla.
22 November 2021
Turkish Medical Association protests Health Ministry’s 2022 budget
The TTB has said, “The Ministry of Health should allocate enough budget to university and training-research hospitals, family health centers and preventive medicine, not to the bosses of city/company hospitals.”
19 November 2021
‘We cannot make ends meet’: Workers take to the streets in İzmir
Thousands of workers, also members of the DİSK labor confederation, took to the streets to demand equality in income and taxation. DİSK Aegean Representative Sarı made a call for a one-day strike ahead of the minimum wage negotiations.
19 November 2021
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Syrian child worker killed after her head got stuck in fruit packing machine
Authorities have opened an investigation into the business. A judgeship has arrested a shift supervisor and issued an arrest warrant for the owner of the business.
17 November 2021
At least 165 workers lost their lives in October
According to the report of the Health and Safety Labor Watch, at least 165 workers lost their lives in October 2021. While 16 of the deceased were women, 149 were men.
15 November 2021
‘19 healthcare workers subjected to violence in Turkey in October'
The Essential Health and Social Service Laborers’ Union has released a monthly report on violence against healthcare workers: “No action was taken against the 2 of 21 assaulters while 15 were released from detention.”
15 November 2021
'Health workers pay the price for Turkey’s collapsing healthcare system’
Protesting in several provinces including İstanbul, Diyarbakır and Balıkesir, medical chambers said, “We are paying the price for the healthcare system which has collapsed. We don’t want to pay any more prices.”
12 November 2021
USD exchange rate against lira on the increase: Almost 10 lira
The depreciation of the Turkish Lira (TRY) has gained pace. The exchange rate of the US dollar topped 9.97 TRY today, on November 11.
11 November 2021
Unemployment rises according to Employment Agency, TurkStat says the opposite
The Research Center of the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey has drawn attention to the gap between the number of unemployed people shared by the state agency TurkStat and the one shared by the Employment Agency İŞKUR.
11 November 2021
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‘At least 497 health workers died of COVID-19 in Turkey’
Halis Yerlikaya from the Turkish Medical Association says that 35.2 percent of the COVID-19 deaths of healthcare workers were among physicians while 13 percent were among pharmacists and 6.7 percent were among nurses and midwives.
10 November 2021
One in every five people is unemployed in Turkey, according to official figures
The broad unemployment was 21.9 percent and the youth unemployment was 21.5 percent in September, says TurkStat.
10 November 2021
Over 28,000 workers killed in occupational homicides during AKP's rule
"The prevailing situation in Turkey is the existence of an occupational homicide regime," says the İSİG.
3 November 2021
Turkey’s annual consumer inflation rate nears 20 percent
The state agency Turkish Statistical Institute has announced the consumer price index for October 2021: While monthly inflation stands at 2.39 percent, annual inflation has been measured as 19.89 percent.
3 November 2021
Turkey raises natural gas prices for industry
BOTAŞ has cited global prices increases for the latest hike. It has maintained prices for households.
1 November 2021
Competition Authority fines 6 chain stores, suppliers over ‘excessive prices’
In the investigation into “excessive prices”, BİM, CarrefourSA, Migros, ŞOK, A101 and Savola Gıda grocery store chains have been given an administrative fine of 2 billion 671 million lira in total, which is approximately 280 million US dollars.
29 October 2021
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