{"id":638558,"date":"2026-08-15T11:42:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T11:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/638558\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T11:42:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T11:42:47","slug":"turkiyes-paid-employment-rises-2-5-percent-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/638558\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s paid employment rises 2.5 percent in June"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISTANBUL \u00a0
\n\"T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s<\/p>\n

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The number of paid<\/a> employees<\/a> in T\u00fcrkiye<\/a>\u2019s industry, construction, trade and services sectors increased by 2.5 percent year-on-year in June 2026, reaching 16.33 million, according to official data on Aug. 14.<\/p>\n

Among the main sectors, employment in industry declined by 1.1 percent annually to 4.83 million, while the construction sector recorded a 7.1 percent increase to 2.03 million employees. Employment in the trade and services sector rose by 3.5 percent to 9.47 million, showed the data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (T\u00dc\u0130K).<\/p>\n

Within industry, the manufacturing sector posted a 1.3 percent annual decline, with the number of paid employees falling to 448 million.<\/p>\n

In the services segment, employment in transportation and storage increased by 5.9 percent year-on-year to 1.39 million employees, while the number of paid employees in accommodation and food service activities rose by 3.2 percent to 1.5 million.<\/p>\n

On a monthly basis, the total number of paid employees in industry, construction, trade and services sectors increased by 1 percent in June compared with the previous month.<\/p>\n

Employment in industry rose 0.9 percent month-on-month, while construction recorded a 2 percent increase and trade and services posted a 0.8 percent gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ISTANBUL \u00a0 \u00a0 The number of paid employees in T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s industry, construction, trade and services sectors increased by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,179,18,3794,19,17,166214,11065],"class_list":["post-638558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-employees","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-paid","tag-trkiye"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117099348450118522","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}