Unemployment rate down to 8.5 pct in October

Türkiye’s unemployment rate decreased to 8.5 percent in October, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) announced on Nov. 28.

The rate was down from 8.6 percent in September, according to TÜİK's data.

The number of unemployed people aged 15 and over was down by 27,000 to 3.03 million in October. Joblessness stood at 7 percent among men and 11.3 percent among women in the same period. Meanwhile, employment increased, with 185,000 more people working, bringing the total number of employed to 32.77 million.

The overall employment rate was up to 49.2 percent, including 66.5 percent for men and 32.4 percent for women. The labor force also increased by 157,000 to 35.8 million, with the participation rate at 53.8 percent.

Youth unemployment — covering those aged 15 to 24 — rose 0.2 percentage points from September to 15.6 percent in October. It was 12.9 percent for men and 20.6 percent for women. In the third quarter of the year, the unemployment rate also stood at 8.5 percent on average.

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The initiative is overseen by a parliamentary commission chaired by Kurtulmuş. The panel is set to convene on Dec. 4 to review findings from a delegation that visited jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan on the İmralı prison island earlier this week.

"We are consigning the issue of terrorism, which imperial projects use as pawns and see as a proxy for policies of division and fragmentation, to history, never to be revived again.”

The ceremony at Çukurova University was attended by Adana Governor Yavuz Selim Köşger, deputies from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), as well as academics and students.

"We are now leaving behind the scourge of terrorism, which has shackled the 50 years of our republic, preventing this country from moving forward and preventing its people from forming the world’s strongest nation in unity,” he said.

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