{"id":720542,"date":"2026-07-31T08:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T08:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/720542\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T08:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T08:11:15","slug":"jobless-rate-hits-record-low-simsek-pledges-productivity-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/720542\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobless rate hits record low, \u015eim\u015fek pledges productivity push"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANKARA
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Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet \u015eim\u015fek<\/a> said T\u00fcrkiye<\/a> would continue productivity-focused labor policies after the country\u2019s unemployment rate fell to a record low in June.<\/p>\n

The seasonally adjusted jobless rate<\/a> declined by 0.5 percentage points from the previous month to 7.6 percent, the lowest level since monthly records began in 2005, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute (T\u00dc\u0130K).<\/p>\n

The number of unemployed people decreased by 168,000 to 2.69 million, while employment rose by 227,000 to 32.73 million. The employment rate increased by 0.3 percentage points to 48.9 percent.<\/p>\n

\u015eim\u015fek said the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate averaged 8.1 percent in the first half of the year, 0.3 percentage points lower than in the same period of 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cProductivity growth is critical to achieving our country\u2019s long-term development goals,\u201d \u015eim\u015fek wrote on the Turkish social media platform NSosyal.<\/p>\n

The government would continue policies aimed at making the labor market more efficient, improving human capital and supporting high-value-added production, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANKARA \u00a0 Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet \u015eim\u015fek said T\u00fcrkiye would continue productivity-focused labor policies after the country\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,36325,17978,40706,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-720542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-jobless-rate","tag-mehmet-simsek","tag-trkiye","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}