Minister Işıkhan announced İŞKUR's 2026 employment data

Turkish Labour and Social Security Minister Vedat Işıkhan announced that the state employment agency İŞKUR mediated the placement of 1,258,507 people into jobs during the first 10 months of 2026, a figure he disclosed via a post on his social media account. The number offers a gauge of how much of Turkey's labour-market matching is being handled through the public employment channel rather than private hiring or informal networks. It matters because İŞKUR placements feed directly into the government's broader employment targets and are watched as a signal of labour-market absorption alongside official unemployment data. What to watch next is whether the monthly pace holds through the final two months of the year and how the full-year total compares with prior periods and with the government's medium-term employment programme.