For a four-member family, the starvation line was 2,406 lira and the poverty line was 7,838 lira, the survey has found.

Miners from Soma have been struggling for their compensation and pension right for five years now. Staging a sit-in protest in front of sub-governor’s office since July 19, they say, “We will march to Ankara if the omnibus bill does not pass the Parliament.”

Minister Selçuk visited seasonal agricultural workers and gave out books to children.

The bank has held its one-week repo rate unchanged at 8.25 percent, keeping it steady for the second straight month.

Attacked by a group of people organized by village heads wanting to charge them a “head tax”, Kurdish workers from Mardin have recounted what they went through in Yozgat, where they went to work in a forest, but had to leave afterwards.

Workers from Turkey's southeastern Mardin province went to Yozgat to work in a forest. Organized by the village heads who wanted to charge them a “head tax”, a group of people attacked the workers, who then had to leave the province.

Hakan Atilla, a former manager of Turkey's state-owned Halkbank, was sentenced to 32 months in prison for evading the US sanctions on Iran.

Workers at the Palestinian branches of the companies have been forced to unpaid overtime work, the DİSK has stated.

The TurkStat has announced the results of the annual household budget survey.

Eighteen investors and seven brokerage houses have been fined 2.4 million dollars for non-compliance with short-selling ban.

The unemployment rate stood at 28.7 percent in April according to the broad definition of unemployment while women have been affected significantly more than men, the DİSK-AR report says.

According to Labor Force Statistics of the TurkStat for April, the number of unemployed people has dropped by 427 thousand to 3 million 775 thousand in a year. Employment has dropped by 2 million 585 thousand people in the meantime.