Turkish unemployment rate falls to 10.6pc

15 Jun, 2015

ISTANBUL: Turkish unemployment fell to an average of 10.6 percent in February-April from 11.2 percent in the first three months of the year, the Turkish Statistics Institute said on Monday.

The result was a slight increase on the 9.7 percent from a year earlier. The non-farm unemployment rate, also measured on a three-month average, eased to 12.6 percent during the February-April period from 13.2 percent in January-March.

Copyright Reuters, 2015

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