Stepping back from the lower interest rate policy, Ağbal has been dismissed only four-and-a-half months after his appointment.

Releasing a report covering the one-year period from March 11, 2020 to March 10, 2021, the Health and Safety Labor Watch has reiterated that the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a disease of the working class.

The Monetary Policy Committee of Turkey’s Central Bank has increased the policy rate (one-week repo auction rate) from 17 to 19 percent.

The share of the labor force in GDP decreased in 2020, says a report by the Chamber of Mechanical Engineers.

In a press conference about the “Code 29”, a legal way to circumvent the layoff ban amid the pandemic, labor organizations have underlined that 80 percent of the ongoing suits for reinstatement stem from this code.

Only 7,429 people used the airport in 2020 whereas the guaranteed number of passengers was 1.27 million.

According to the “Labor Force Statistics” announced by the Turkish Statistical Institute, the number of unemployed people was 3 million 861 thousand in Turkey in January.

New general manager Ermut is also a board member of Turkish Airlines.

With a Presidential decree published in the Official Gazette, the layoff ban on employers has been extended for 2 months.

The workers have said that they are forced to work more than 12 hours a day without overtime pay.

Atilla served 24 months in prison in the US for helping Iran evade sanctions before being appointed as the head of Borsa İstanbul.

Also, at least 858 workers have died of Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic, according to the İSİG report.

"Social assistance provided as charity rather than rights do not prevent poverty but perpetuate it," 92 groups have said in a joint statement.

Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects (TMMOB) Chair Koramaz says, “Looking on occupational homicides and associating the incidents with fate and disposition, the political power holders are making great efforts to protect this system.”

According to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat), the country’s consumer price index increased by 15.61 percent annually and by 0.91 percent monthly.

The country's GDP grew by 5.9 percent in the last quarter of 2020, according to the TurkStat.

On the sixth day of municipal workers’ strike in İstanbul’s Maltepe, the head office of the Public Services Employees Union of Turkey has signed the collective labor agreement. The strike has officially ended amid workers’ protests against the head office.

According to a survey conducted by the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality with the participation of 702 shopkeepers in 39 districts, 92.6 percent of shopkeepers in the city are having problems with paying their rent, bills and workers’ salaries.

For a family of four, the starvation line was 2,719 lira and the poverty line was 8,568 lira.

As no agreement has been reached in the collective bargaining, the Public Services Employees Union of Turkey (Genel-İş) has put a sign of strike on the Beşiktaş Municipality in İstanbul. The strike will begin on March 15 if the deadlock continues.