According to official figures, the narrow-defined unemployment rate was 12 percent and the broad unemployment rate was 24.4 percent in Turkey in 2021. The easing of the coronavirus outbreak played a role in the 1-percent annual improvement.

In İstanbul, the price of a liter of gasoline has increased to 19.78 Turkish Lira while the price of a liter of diesel fuel has increased to 22.27 Turkish Lira.

Having fallen on the ground during the police intervention against physicians in Taksim on March 14 Doctor’s Day, retired physician Dr. Erdinç Köksal gave his gown covered in mud during the intervention to the İstanbul Medical Chamber as a gift.

Çerkezoğlu, the Chair of the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey, says the Minimum Wage Determination Commission can convene upon the call of the Ministry of Labor, noting that there is no obstacle to a rise in the minimum wage.

The Turkish Statistical Institute has shared the agricultural input price index for January 2022: Fertilizer and soil improvers with 153.34 percent and energy and lubricants with 101.14 percent were the subgroups with high annual increases.

"Moda Sahnesi", a private theater hall in İstanbul, has announced that the electricity distribution and sales company Enerjisa “sent them a message of celebration” for March 27 World Theater Day: “We will enter such a day with our electricity cut”.

When asked about what the country's most important problem is right now, an overwhelming majority of 70.2 percent of the respondents said it is the economy.

The citizens of Turkey who want to go abroad are obliged to pay a departure fee. By Erdoğan’s Presidential decision, this fee has been increased from 50 to 150 lira.

The name of the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology has been changed to the Ministry of Industry ad Technology.

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank convened today, on March 17, and decided to keep the policy rate (one-week repo auction rate) unchanged at 14 percent.

Unions and platforms working for pensioner rights call on all retirees and their organizations to wage a struggle together under the roof of a combined joint union.

The TTB has thanked the healthcare workers and physicians who joined the 2-day strike and said, “The statements made by the President yesterday have shown that our demands are still being ignored”.

Upon the call of professional medical organizations and labor unions, healthcare workers halted work in a strike action across Turkey again.

The Turkish Statistical Institute has announced the producer price index of agricultural products for February: The producer inflation rate was 13.74 percent monthly and 68.49 percent yearly while some prices saw a nearly 200-percent annual increase.

Last week, the president said, "Let them go," in the face of an unprecedented number of doctors emigrating to western countries because of poor working conditions.

İstanbul Medical Chamber members were not allowed to lay wreaths on Taksim Square to mark the Doctor's Day.

In the face of high volatility in foreign exchange rates, the government in late 2021 introduced the foreign exchange rate protected lira deposit system

Healthcare workers will be on strike today, on March 14 Doctor’s Day, and tomorrow. Before this country-wide two-day strike, they protested in İstanbul’s Kadıköy and also addressed Health Minister Fahrettin Koca’s letter to physicians.

Turkey’s current account balance registered a 7.1 billion USD deficit in January, widening by 5.3 billion USD year-on-year, according to the Central Bank.

Marking the second year of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Health and Safety Labor Watch has released a report regarding the workers who lost their lives due to COVID-19 in Turkey over the past two years.