By Tuba Sahin
ANKARA (AA) – The unemployment rate in Turkey was 13.5 percent in December 2018, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) announced Friday.
“The unemployment rate [was] 13.5 percent with 3.1 percentage point increase [from December 2017], ” TurkStat said in a statement.
December's figure was also up from 12.3 percent from a month earlier.
The number of jobless aged 15 and over in the country rose to 4.3 million, a rise of 1 million from December 2017.
