The EPDK does not have an unlimited authority to determine the prices and the high pricing violates three articles of the Constitution, according to the Consumer Protection Association.

Family physicians and family health center employees have halted work for two days on the grounds that the Family Medicine Contract and Payment Regulation leads to losses in their employee personal rights and removes job security.

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank has kept the policy rate (one-week repo auction rate) unchanged at 14 percent.

The prices of new houses increased by 66.6 percent when compared to last December, according to the Central Bank. The prices of the houses that were not new also saw a 57.7-percent annual increase in December 2021.

According to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat), the producer price index of agricultural products increased by 52 percent annually and by 14.83 percent monthly.

Unemployment among young women is higher than men, shows the report of the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey: Broad youth unemployment stands at 51.3 percent for women and 35.4 percent for men.

Workers have been protesting against low wage rises amid high inflation.

The Turkish Statistical Institute has released the employment statistics for the fourth quarter of 2021.

The companies have been under criticism due to their excessive profits amid a sharp increase in electricity prices. They say a government regulatory body determines their revenues.

The delivery workers of YemekSepeti, the largest online food delivery company of Turkey, gathered in front of the company’s central office in İstanbul, announcing that they are subjected to mobbing for joining the protests.

The workers of Migros supermarket chains burned the “Building the Future” report of the Turkish Industry and Business Association in protest: “What is allotted to us is a system of slavery. The dismissal of 257 workers in the dead of winter…”

‍In a statement about the downgrade, Fitch Ratings has said, "Policy-driven financial stress episodes of higher frequency and intensity have increased Turkey's vulnerabilities in terms of high inflation, low external liquidity and weak policy credibility​."

In a statement, Migros, one of the largest supermarket chains in Turkey, has admitted dismissing 257 workers protesting the 8-percent wage rise: “Our door is open to our colleagues who find these working conditions suitable.”

Opposition MP Veli Ağbaba and singer and activist Haluk Levent visited the workers who continue protesting in front of the Yemeksepeti headquarters in İstanbul.

The share of informal employees was 27.8 percent whereas the youth unemployment rate was over 20 percent in December.

“The workers demanding their daily bread are now deprived of it as well. We know this force, we know this obtrusiveness. Today, workers all across Turkey are resisting it,” said the Chair of Warehouse, Port, Dock and Maritime Workers Union.

Halting work for better working conditions, over 150 workers of the Migros Depo, the warehouse of Migros supermarket chain, and three union executives were briefly detained while they were waiting in the warehouse in İstanbul’s Esenyurt.

Natural gas delivery to industrial facilities have been restricted since January 20.

The recent industrial natural gas cuts and the excessive increase in energy prices are caused by wrong energy policies, says the Chamber of Chemical Engineers.

Thousands of people took to the streets in Mardin’s Kızıltepe and protested the price hikes. Police intervened against the protesters with pepper gas and pressurized water.