Delivery workers of Turkey's popular e-commerce platforms demand higher wages. After Trendyol workers secured a 38 percent hike, workers of Hepsiburada and Scotty have also began protests.

Giving their statements at the Gebze Security Directorate, 108 people, including 106 Farplas factory workers and union representatives and 2 DGD-SEN union executives who were there in support, have been released from detention.

While Central Bank Governor Kavcıoğlu, in a press briefing on January 27, announced the 2022 year-end inflation forecast as 23.2 percent, Minister of Treasury and Finance Nebati said a day before: “Inflation will be around 40 percent for some time.”

According to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat), Turkey’s annual inflation rate was 36.08 percent in December 2021. The Inflation Research Group (ENAG), on the other hand, estimated the same rate as 82.81 percent.

Delivery workers of the e-commerce company have been protesting low wage rises.

The delivery workers of Trendyol, one of the largest e-commerce companies in Turkey, gathered in İstanbul’s Maltepe and Yenikapı and expressed their demands, including a 50-percent pay rise and not dismissing the workers seeking their rights.

The Ankara Branch of the Health and Social Service Laborers Union has released its report on violence in healthcare: The number of incidents of violence in healthcare reported with code white increased by 56 percent in 2020 during the pandemic.

Trendyol raised the salaries of its workers by only 11 percent despite the 36 percent official inflation rate.

As Iran has cut natural gas flow to Turkey due to a technical failure on the transmission line, the Electricity Transmission Corporation has decided to restrict electricity distribution to organized industrial zones for 3 days starting from today, January 24.

Health and Social Service Laborers Union (SES) Chair Selma Atabey has raised concerns that the Law on Violence in Healthcare, which was enacted “for show”, is not enforced even in its current state, underlining that violence is increasing by day.

Healthcare workers’ labor and professional organizations have announced that they will be on call from January 26 to February 4 and on strike on February 8, demanding an improvement in their wages and employee personal rights.

Having caught an infection as he was forced to clean the sewer at İstanbul University, 26-year-old Açıkgözoğlu lost his life in 2014. The employer has been sentenced to pay a judicial fine of 12,100 Turkish Lira.

The Central Bank has kept the interest rate at 14 percent, saying that it will use all instruments decisively "until strong indicators point to a permanent fall in inflation."

Minister of National Education Özer has announced that 50 percent of the 15 thousand teachers to be appointed on January 31 will be employed in İstanbul. The number of teachers awaiting an appointment to work in the public sector is 500,041.

Dismissed from the Uğur Textile factory in Urfa, 87 workers allege that their names have been given to the other factories in the province and they are unable to find a job anywhere for this reason.

835 workers of Çimsataş metal factory in Mersin have halted work in protest after the unions of workers and employers signed a collective labor agreement.

The gender gap in unemployment rates has reached 4.9 percent, according to BETAM.

As the collective bargaining between the BBC Turkish and the Journalists’ Union of Turkey (TGS) has ended in a deadlock, the journalists will go on strike on January 14. The decision was announced in early December 2021.

The company fired 106 workers after the Nakliyat-İş union started its activities.

According to the collective labor agreement signed by metal workers' and employers’ unions, workers’ wages will be increased by 27.44 percent in the first 6 months.