The one-week policy rate will remain at 14 percent. The "liraization" strategy will continue, said the bank.

Women's employment and labor force participation rates are less than half of men's, the official figures show.

Only three percent of the killed workers were unionized. Forty-eight refugee workers were killed in Turkey whereas 22 workers from Turkey were killed in other countres.

An independent group of economists found the annual inflation rate was over 175 percent in June.

The explosion reportedly occurred after a cutting disc touched a gas tank.

The 'cost of living' of a single employee has increased to 8,313 Turkish Lira (TRY), which is 4,061 TRY higher than the minimum wage.

Turkey ranked among the worst countries because of the suppression of strikes, arrests of unionists and the systematic prevention of union activities, according to the ITUC index.

Students experience workplace accidents just as adults do and safety measures at schools are not sufficient, says a new report by the FİSA Child Rights Center.

Veysel Ulusoy, the founder of the independent research group which calculates the inflation rate higher than official figures is facing a disciplinary inquiry over speaking to press without "permission"

The narrowly defined unemployment rate was 11.3 percent in April, with an increase in the number of unemployed by 65 thousand and reaching 3 million 853 thousand according to TurkStat.

Over 96 percent of the 646 killed workers were non-union workers; 38 of them were refugees.

Members of a public employees union attempted to protest the statistical authority due to "inaccurate" inflation figures.

The dollar/lira exchange rate has surpassed 16.70 for the first time since December 20. As the lira continues to tank, the rise in oil prices have continued since last week.

Admitting that the government could have raised the interest rates to curb the inflation, Minister Nebati has unintentionally contradicted President Erdoğan's theory that higher interest rates bring higher inflation.

Gas prices have risen by 30 percent and electricity prices have have risen by 15 percent.

The country's GDP increased by 7.3 percent to 179.8 billion US dollars in the first quarter of 2022.

"The global economy is going through a difficult time. High increases in commodity prices, problems in the supply chain and rising prices in transportation caused inflation to rise sharply all over the world," Nebati has remarked.

"Increase in inflation is driven by rising energy costs, temporary effects of pricing formations that are not supported by economic fundamentals, and strong negative supply shocks," the bank has said.

The court has concluded that the company had fired three workers because of their union activities.

As the economic crisis deepens in Turkey, shopkeepers in the Beyoğlu district of İstanbul consider shutting down their shops.