The deal between the sovereign wealth funds of the two countries has been finalized.

The country registered growth after a shrink of 9.9 percent in the second quarter of the year.

According to a report by Domestic Workers Solidarity Union, 97 percent of domestic workers have to struggle against economic violence in Turkey. 99.7 percent of women subjected to violence at home say they are also subjected to violence at work.

Central Bank has increased the Turkish Lira’s swap auction limit from 50 percent to 60 percent. The limit has been gradually increasing since last April.

Unable to get their severance pay and wages, miners from Ermenek attempted to march to Ankara in protest: Gendarmerie prevented the march, Independent Miners’ Union Chair Çetin fainted during the intervention, 30 workers have been detained.

Dismissed without severance pay or put on unpaid leave due to their union activities and briefly detained yesterday as they wanted to march to Ankara, metal workers from three factories in Kocaeli have set off for the capital city.

Unable to get their severance pay and wages for months, even years now, the miners from Ermenek, Karaman have once again decided to march to the capital city in protest as the authorities have not kept their promises to the workers.

Taken into custody by the police when they attempted to march from Kocaeli province to Ankara to protest metal workers’ dismissal without severance pay and forced unpaid leave, 109 people have been released from detention.

Police attacked metal workers’ march from Kocaeli to the capital city. Demanding their right to unionize, workers staged a sit-in protest in front of the office of United Metal Workers’ Union. Police took the detained to the security office in municipality busses.

In the absence of an economic concern for public good and a political concern for building an inclusive social contract, solidarity economies stand out as pioneers of social alliance, community building and economic action for the sake of decent human life.

Central Bank has increased the policy rate from 10.25 to 15 percent: “The lagged effects of depreciation in Turkish lira, increasing international food prices and deterioration in inflation expectations affect the inflation outlook adversely.”

The Scientific Advisory Board of İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İMM) has prepared a report recommending urgent lockdown in the city amid increasing number of cases and fatalities. Blue collars are among the high risk groups, according to the report.

After Minister of Interior Soylu promised a solution for their problems and demands, miners from Soma have decided to end their protest until January 15. As for the miners of Ermenek, they are waiting for the meeting with the governor's office today.

While 141 workers were working in healthcare, 90 workers were working in trade/office/education/cinema, 25 were working in municipal affairs, 20 in textile/leather sector, 17 in security, 15 in metal, 14 in transportation and 10 in accomodation.

“We don’t say it as a slogan, we have really burned out. Our two fellow health workers committed suicide,” says SES Union Co-Chair Atabey about the decision of two hospitals to call COVID-infected personnel back to work without being tested.

A group of artists have joined a social media campaign under the hashtag “#MadenciyleYürüyorum” (I am marching with the miner) in solidarity with the miners from Soma and Ermenek who have not been paid their wages and severance.

According to main opposition CHP MP Tanrıkulu’s “Report on Occupational Homicides in Turkey”, which covers the period when the AKP has been in power, 25 thousand 716 workers lost their lives in occupational homicides in 18 years.

The Research Center of the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey (DİSK) has released its report on unemployment and employment outlook in Turkey in August 2020: “Employment has decreased by 975 thousand people in a year.”

The labor force also decreased by 1.4 million compared to the same month last year, according to the TurkStat.

The monetary policy communication will be strengthened in the framework of transparency, accountability and predictability principles, Ağbal has said.