By Gokhan Ergocun
ISTANBUL (AA) - The unemployment rate in Türkiye was 8.6% in June, up 0.2 percentage points from May, official figures showed on Wednesday.
The number of unemployed persons – aged 15 years old and over – rose by 52,000 to 3.05 million month-on-month, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) stated.
The unemployment was estimated at 7.1% for men and 11.4% for women.
Youth unemployment rate, meanwhile, was 16.2% last month.
The number of employed persons in the country was 32.45 million in June.