According to a recent report by the Research Center of the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey (DİSK), Turkey has allocated only 1.1 percent of its GDP for its citizens, including their health expenditures, during the pandemic.

Most of the workers are concerned about the future and don't want to become unemployed in the time of the pandemic, shows a new study.

The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has released the Consumer Price Index (CPI) statistics for January 2021. The figures of the TurkStat have shown that the CPI increased by 14.97 percent annually and 1.68 percent monthly in January.

Workers gathered in front of Algeria's consulate in İstanbul, demanding to be paid.

According to the Foreign Trade Statistics announced by the TurkStat for December 2020, Turkey’s exports decreased by 6.3 percent and imports increased by 4.3 percent in the period of January-December 2020.

After Ağbal's appointment, the policy rate has been raised from 10 percent to 17.25 percent.

With the new ruling, none of the defendants will go back to prison for the 2014 coal mine explosion that killed 301 workers.

The general director of the fund has said that it has 1 million Euro of debt with a capital of 33 billion dollars.

The CSUN factory, a manufacturer of solar panels, was opened in 2012 with the incentive of the ruling AKP. Six years later, its managers left Turkey and the factory was closed. Over 400 workers have not been paid their wages or severance since then.

Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has released its statistics on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by Provinces in 2019. While İstanbul had the highest share with 30.7 percent, the last three provinces were Tunceli, Ardahan and Bayburt in the east.

Unable to get their wages, workers halted work at the construction site of Galataport, a controversial urban project on the Asian side of İstanbul.

According to the report of Turkey’s Court of Accounts, 23 of 81 public enterprises incurred losses in 2019. The highest amount of loss was made by the Petroleum Pipeline Corporation (BOTAŞ) with 5.6 billion Turkish Lira.

A group of health workers from Ankara City Hospital applauded in protest for their employee personal rights. Police intervened into the protest, detaining several health workers. The detained have been released later in the day.

The Monetary Policy Committee of Turkey’s Central Bank has kept the policy rate (one-week repo auction rate) constant at 17 percent.

The incidents happened at a construction site run by a company close to the government.

The food prices in Turkey have seen an increase of 20.6 percent over the past year, which makes the country ranks second after Argentina among developing countries.

Healthcare workers have criticized the 3+3 percent pay rise to take effect in 2021: “Over the past year, natural gas prices have increased by 32 percent, electricity prices by 31 percent, legumes by 60 percent, cheese by 27 percent, eggs by 80 percent…”

The Central Bank has released the results of its expectation survey.

Not paid their wages and severance for years, the workers of Bimeks electronics retailer turn wherever their bosses go into a site of protest. “We are trying to exert pressure by targeting their identities known by the public,” says Celep from Umut-Sen union.

According to the annual report of Health and Safety Labor Watch, at least 2,427 workers lost their lives in occupational homicides in 2020. This number was 1,736 in 2019.