Türkiye's unemployment rate at 9.6% in June

By Gokhan Ergocun

ISTANBUL (AA) – Türkiye's unemployment rate was at 9.6% in June, up by 0.1 percentage point from May, the country's statistical authority said on Thursday.

The number of unemployed people, aged 15 or more, rose by 2,000 to 3.3 million in June on a monthly basis, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat).

The unemployment rate was at 7.8% for men and 13.2% for women.

The employment rate came in at 47.8% in June, down by 0.6 percentage point month-on-month.