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Turkey's unemployment shoots up

Fri, Mar 05 2010 16:30 CET

byThe Sofia Echo staff

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Turkey's unemployment shoots up

Turkey now has the second highest unemployment rate in Europe, behind Spain.

The study, conducted by Istanbul's Okan University, covered EU countries as well as Turkey and the US.

Results showed that Turkey's unemployment rate had risen to 14 per cent, a rise of three percentage points on 2008.

Europe's average jobless rate is currently 8.8 percent. Germany has a 7.5 per cent unemployment rate, France and Croatia 9.5 per cent each but Spain, at 18 per cent, is the highest in the EU.

Istanbul had the highest unemployment rate among Turkish cities in 2009 with unemployment at 16.8 percent.

The number of unemployed in Istanbul, Turkey's most populous city, reached 753 000 in 2009, marking a 52.7 percent rise over the previous year.

Joblessness in Izmir reached 227,000, a 45.5 percent year-on-year rise, while the number of unemployed in Ankara reached 212 000, a 17.8 percent rise on the previous year

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Anonymous Statistics Sat, Mar 06 2010 00:46 CET
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Why to make news out of numbers published by a university that is not known to anybody in Turkey. This is a very low class private university established couple of years ago. If you are going to make news, look at some official figures. I am really disapointed with the approach of SofiaEcho!!

Another note for the readers is that in Turkey a very high portion of the population works without registration. All staff in restaurant, shops, coffee shops, even most up to three star hotel staff work in this way. So, these figures do not [...]

 Read the full comment represent much. This is not to say that unemloyement in Turkey is low. But these figures are misleading. THIS IS RUBBISH NEWS!!!

Anonymous Con Fri, Mar 05 2010 18:52 CET
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Has life suddenly improved in Estonia and Latvia? And since when is Turkey a European country?


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