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Unemployment in Turkey falls to 9.4%

Unemployment in Turkey remained below the 10% mark in July, according to data released on Monday by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK), which puts the level of unemployment in the Eurasian country at 9.4%, down 0.2% from June.

According to the data presented by TÜİK, the number of unemployed people aged 15 and over in Turkey fell by 38,000 in July from the previous month to 3.29 million, with the unemployment rate standing at 7.6 per cent among men and 12.9 per cent among women. At the same time, the employment rate in Turkey reached 48.4 per cent in July, an increase of 0.5 per cent compared with June.