“Foundation universities, driven by short-term financial plans and market conditions, are conducting what amounts to a purge based on legally questionable fixed-term contracts," says a union official.

Turkey has been a member of the FATF since 1991 but was placed on the grey list in 2021 due to concerns over the effectiveness of its AML and CFT measures.

The government has ruled out a rise. Economists oppose the assumption that an increase would have excerbated the inflation problem.

After CHP’s İmamoğlu secured re-election in the March polls, Halk Ekmek implemented two significant price hikes.

According to Turkey’s statistical authority, Turkey is the most affordable country among 36 European countries. However, prices of personal transport equipment are above the EU average.

"This tax reform, presented as 'tax justice' by the economic management, almost taxes the air we breathe," said Şamil Tayyar.

The number of retirees who continue to work and pay social security support premiums has more than doubled since 2017.

The government plans to collect about 380 million dollars in taxes  assuming the number of international travelers remains consistent with the 8.7 million individuals who paid the fee last year.

The measures should be accompanied by increasing taxes on the wealthy, suggests economist Cem Oyvat.

Workers involved in the building of the finance center demand their unpaid wages.

Only Argentina, Syria and Lebanon surpassed Turkey in inflation rate.

The ENAG calculated the inflation rate at 124.63%, nearly twice as high as the official rate.

The steep increase in food, particularly meat prices, is attributed to flawed policies that allow large suppliers and grocery chains to manipulate the market.

The agency has released the ethical principles on the occasion of Women's Day

The Central Bank, which had previously decided on eight consecutive interest rate hikes, this time kept the bank's policy rate unchanged at 45 percent under the leadership of the new Governor Fatih Karahan.

CHP Niğde Deputy Ömer Fethi Gürer stated that the increase in debt in one year amounted to 261 billion lira and said, "Farmers, grappling with dozens of problems such as the increase in the cost of feed, fuel, electricity used for agricultural purposes, feed, fertilizer, labor costs, and the inability to sell their products, have started to either move away from agriculture or borrow from banks."

CHP Ankara Deputy Semra Dinçer, who prepared a report on how 2023 went for retirees, said, "Inflation swallowed up the retiree pension. Retirees have become unable to afford meat."

The inflation rate was 129% according to ENAG and 64.86 according to TurkStat.

According to TÜRK-İŞ data, the poverty line increased by 617 lira in one month, reaching 15,048 lira. The difference with the minimum wage decreased to 1,954 lira before salaries were deposited according to the newly determined level of minimum wage, which is 17,002 lira as of January 2024.

The top 20% of the population, with the highest income, takes 49.7% of the country's total income, while the remaining 80% of the population receives 50.3% of the total income.