By Tuba Sahin
ANKARA (AA) - Unemployment in Turkey dropped to 13.6% this February, down 1.1 percentage points from the same month last year, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) announced Monday.
The number of unemployed persons age 15 and over slipped by 502,000 year-on-year to 4.23 million by the end of February.
On a monthly basis, February's figure also dropped 0.2 percentage points, as unemployment in January stood at 13.8%.