Mehmet Müezzinoğlu

The long awaited cabinet reshuffle has finally occurred on July 19.

We can say that one of the most important factors of the reshuffle is securing a backing down from having two heads at the helm of the economic administration.

At a time when the number of racist attacks targeting Syrian refugees in Turkey is on the rise, the United Metalworkers' Union (Birleşik Metal İş Sendikası) issued a report called "Syrian Refugee Labor." We have thus seen once again how most of the three million Syrian refugees are living under difficult conditions here.

A deadline of July 13 has been set for both employers and employees to submit the final text of their proposal for a severance payment, Labor Minister Mehmet Müezzinoğlu said on July 5.

The government has agreed on labor conditions with nearly 200,000 public workers and a respective collective bargaining deal will be signed on July 3 in an ceremony with the attendance of Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım, Labor and Social Security Minister Mehmet Müezzinoğlu said late on July 1.  

The shadow economy costs the Turkish economy 60 billion Turkish Liras ($17 billion) annually, Labor Minister Mehmet Müezzinoğlu has said, adding that new measures would be taken to slash it.  

The share of the shadow economy in the whole economy is 32 percent, he said. 

There are a total of 101,659 people under the age of 18 working across Turkey, Labor and Social Security Minister Mehmet Müezzinoğlu has said. 

Müezzinoğlu's remarks came after Ömer Fethi Güler, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) lawmaker from the Central Anatolian province of Niğde, asked questions about child labor. 

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday took back control of the ruling party he founded, a step that gives the nation’s most powerful man additional authority to appoint loyalists to parliament lists and party posts across the nation.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has renewed nearly half of the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) executive management to include members of the youth organizations and representatives from business circles during a congress in which he was re-elected as chairman.  

May Day celebrations in Istanbul will be held in the city's Bakırköy district this year after authorities again refused to heed workers' demands to use Taksim Square, the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions (DİSK) said on April 26.

The Turkish unemployment rate of 13 percent registered in the December-February period will be a peak and will fall to around 9.5 percent by the end of 2017 and below 8 percent in 2018, Labor Minister Mehmet Müezzinoğlu has claimed.