Turkey’s unemployment rate fell to 13.7% in the February-to-April period, down from 14.4% between January and March, the Turkish Statistics Institute said Tuesday.
The jobless rate was 15.8% between February and April of 2009.
Excluding the farming sector, the jobless rate fell to 16.7% between February and April, from 18.9% the comparable period a year earlier.
In the whole economy there were 3.438 million unemployed during the latest three-month period, and 21.741 million people with jobs.
-İHA-