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Turkey's İŞKUR youth employment drive

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In late July 2026, Turkey’s public employment agency İŞKUR began rolling out two regional workforce‑integration programmes in the eastern provinces of Hakkâri and Bingöl. The initiatives targeted unemployed Turkish citizens over 18, Bingöl, offering short‑term positions in education‑related projects and forest‑conservation work, with start dates of 3 August 2026 and durations ranging from two months to nine months. work. A week later, later the government announced a nationwide partnership between İŞKUR and VakıfBank, formalised by Labor Labour and Social Security Minister Vedat Işıkhan. The "İstihdama Değer İş Birliği Protokolü" aims Işıkhan, to finance and coordinate employment services to and place three million young people into jobs over the next three years, building on years. On 4 August 2026 the partnership was sealed with the signing of the “İstihdama Değer İş Birliği Protokolü”. The protocol links İŞKUR’s reported record‑setting youth‑employment figures job‑placement network with VakıfBank’s development‑oriented financing, explicitly targeting women’s labour‑force participation as well as youth employment. Minister Işıkhan highlighted June 2026 labour‑market data: youth unemployment fell to 12.8 % and low female unemployment rates. to 9.8 %, the lowest rates in 21 and 14 years respectively, with 4.692 million young people and 10.831 million women already employed. He also noted Turkey’s leading role in global youth‑employment growth from 2007‑2024 and the fastest rise in women’s participation among OECD members. Together, the snapshots developments show a shift from localized hiring pilots to a broader, financially backed strategy to expand youth and women’s employment across Turkey.

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