The Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat) announced on Friday that unemployment rose by 3.1 percent in December year-on-year, reaching 13.5 percent countrywide.
This percentage corresponds to 4.3 million unemployed in Turkey, an increase of more than 1 million people over the same period last year.
In December 2018, the unemployment rate among the 15-24 age group rose by 5.3 percent, reaching 24.5 percent.
