They matched Turkey in poverty
TürkiyeDeclining purchasing power due to high inflation and TL depreciation in Turkey makes it common to work and live on low wages. With the promulgation of the law, which increases the minimum pension to 7,500 lire, 8.8 million retirees will try to live on this money. The number of people with a retirement age of 7,500 lire, together with those of retirement age (EYT), will exceed 15 million.
Despite the fact that the AKP government tried to please the electorate with the arrangements it made shortly before the elections, the fate of millions of workers would be the same in poverty. The livelihood problem is not just the problem of 15 million retirees. Millions of employees share the same fate.
BELOW THE FASTEST LIMIT
According to the DİSK-AR report, in Turkey, where 31.8 million people work, more than half of the employees work for a minimum wage of 8,506 lira and similar wages. In other words, the income of approximately 16 million employees is at the level of the minimum wage. Considering that the hunger limit is 9,590 lira according to Türk-İş data, approximately 24.7 million people are struggling to live below the hunger threshold. When informal workers and those who earn less than the minimum wage are taken into account, it is seen that more than half of the citizens are experiencing economic difficulties. Arzu Çerkezoğlu, Chairman of the Confederation of Revolutionary Workers’ Unions (DİSK), said that there is a serious problem of distribution in Turkey, which is in a major economic crisis, saying: “The participation of labor, employees and wage earners in national income has declined sharply.The labor share, which was 32 percent in 2019, dropped to 25 percent.
THE PART OF THE WORK WILL BE REDUCED TO 25 PERCENT
Emphasizing that there is no income increase but poverty leveling in Turkey, Çerkezoğlu said: “Equal distribution of income, fair wages and tax policies are needed. Income inequality needs to be eliminated. This is possible with a real democracy,” he said.
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DİSK Chairman Arzu Çerkezoğlu, emphasizing that millions live below the poverty line, said: “As Turkey has become a low-wage society, inflation is reducing its purchasing power.” Regarding the minimum pension of 7,500 lira, Çerkezoğlu said: “With law number 5510, enacted by the AKP government in 2008, the pension allocation rate and the update coefficient were lowered, and pensions were systematically decreased. While the lowest pension was 140 percent higher than the minimum wage, it fell to 65 percent. These are the results of the law in question. Now bandaging measures are being taken, ”he said.