This is how the pension melted

CHP Aydın Deputy Evrim Karakoz said: “If the salary were determined solely based on the weight of gold, the lowest pension today would be 14 thousand liras. But the lowest pension, which was 7,500 TL, was even lower than the minimum wage, which was 11,402 TL. “Pensions have melted not only against gold prices, but also against the minimum wage,” he said.

Karakoz of the CHP said: “The government, which in July gave 8.77 lira and a 17.55 percent raise to public employees, only gave a 25 percent raise to retirees.” He said: “In the face of reactions, President Tayyip Erdoğan made promises, but months have passed since the promises were made.”

PLAYING PENSIONERS

Karakoz said: “The government, which makes all kinds of appointments, land sales and expropriations overnight, is stalling retirees. When the new government system came into effect, the lowest pension was 1,578 lira and 8.1 grams of gold could be purchased that day. Today, the minimum pension is 7,500 lira and only 4.3 grams of gold can be purchased. “The retiree’s loss was 3.8 grams,” he said.

‘Bring it to Parliament immediately’

– “In 2001, the lowest pension was 51.42 percent higher than the minimum wage, and pensions decreased relative to the minimum wage for the first time in 2016,” said Evrim Karakoz, adding: “Since then it has remained below the minimum wage. The salaries of the 9 million people receiving the lowest pensions did not increase at all in July. “The study on salary expectations of retirees should be immediately brought to the Turkish Grand National Assembly,” he said.