President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made statements about the minimum wage and pension increases. President Erdogan said: “We have increased the salaries of our retirees and developed solutions that will make them more comfortable, and we will implement them very soon. As you know, we planned to pay bonuses worth 5 thousand lira this month, which will “relieve our retirees in the short term.” The minimum wage issue has its own calendar, you know. We have relieved our workers with a temporary raise. “I think we will now bring workers and employers together and find the most logical solution,” he said.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan answered journalists’ questions regarding his return to Turkey after the Economic Cooperation Organization leaders’ summit in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.
He stated that the fight against inflation continues unabated, asking: Do you have a statement about increasing the minimum wages for retirees? In response to the question, President Erdogan said: “We are determined to combat the problem of inflation, which occupies the global agenda. We have broken the back of inflation, and we will erase its effects in the coming period.” He said.
We constantly say: We will not subject employees and retirees to inflation. President Erdogan pointed out that they said what they said and kept their promises, and said:
“We have increased the minimum wage at an unprecedented rate in the history of the Republic. We have increased the salaries of our retirees and developed solutions that will make them more comfortable, and we will implement them very soon. As you know, we planned to make bonus payments worth 5 thousand liras this month, which will relieve our retirees in the short term. With the actions we have taken and the payments we will be making, we have stood by our employees, and we will continue to do so going forward. “The minimum wage issue has its own timetable, you know. “We relieved our workers with a temporary increase, and now I believe we will bring workers and employers together and find the most logical solution.”