Artists and stage laborers have been excluded from the “gradual normalization” steps that entered into force on June 1. They have been protesting on social media with the slogans “Lay claim to your stage” and “Don’t shut your eyes.”

Held in detention for eight days, the members of the Health and Social Service Laborers’ Union (SES) have been released.

Performing their art mostly independently and unregistered, the workers of the theater industry such as performers, directors, designers, light and sound technicians and dancers have been unable to benefit from any grants during the pandemic.

Business owner Bacaksız: "Property owners receive rent, workers get their salary either from me or from the state, the person from whom I buy goods gets their money, the state gets taxes, but we cannot get any money as we have been closed for months.”

The Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions has calculated the poverty and starvation lines in Turkey in May 2021. According to the confederation, the starvation line of a four-member family is 2,830 lira, while the minimum wage is 2,825 lira in the country.

A DİSK-AR bulletin reveals the extent of youth unemployment in Turkey.

According to the Turkish Statistical Institute, the number of young people in neither education nor employment is 2 million 922 thousand.

Having lost their lives in an occupational homicide in Soma seven years ago today, 301 miners are commemorated: “One of the biggest massacres of workers in Turkey happened in Soma. We haven’t forgotten it, we won’t let it be forgotten.”

According to the monthly report of the Health and Safety Labor Watch (İSİG), at least 735 workers lost their lives in the first four months of 2021.

It has been 7 years since 301 workers lost their lives in an occupational homicide in a mine in Soma, Manisa. The Health and Safety Labor Watch and the DİSK labor confederation have made a statement on this occasion.

Kadıköy Shopkeepers Association Chair Savaşlı says, “The government aid is not likely to give a lifeline support to the sector. It is like a drop in a glass of water. We have been incurring losses for a year now. Some people have lost all their savings.”

Drowning in irrigation canals is not the only reason for the deaths of seasonal agricultural child workers. There are those who fall from a tractor or hoeing machine, poisoned by snake or scorpion bites, small children accidentally run over by a tractor...

The payments made by the Employment Agency of Turkey (İŞKUR) to employers from the Unemployment Insurance Fund account for 26 percent of İŞKUR’s total expenditures, shows the report of the DİSK labor confederation’s research center.

According to a recent report released by the Economy Policy Research Foundation of Turkey, the number of farmers has decreased by 4.3 percent in Turkey in the last year.

The statistical authority has stated that it doesn't intend to hinder the ENAG's activities.

According to the Labor Force Statistics of the Turkish Statistical Institute, one out of every four young people were unemployed in Turkey in March.

Problems of seasonal agricultural workers in Manisa are aggravated even more by the pandemic. In addition to a dire need for hot and clean water, the income inequality and the number of children detached from education rise every year.

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank has kept the policy rate (one-week repo auction rate) fixed at 19 percent, as was also the case last month: “All available instruments will be used in pursuit of the primary objective of price stability.”

After Habertürk TV channel was targeted by the top MHP politicians over a broadcast regarding the party’s draft constitution, Editor-in-Chief Kürşad Oğuz and Ankara Representative Bülent Aydemir have resigned.

In the Covid-19 period, the government has preferred to make citizens indebted instead of putting money in their pockets, which is the primary criterion, as was done in many countries of the world.