Our wages are decreasing because of immigrants.

The AKP government, which flooded the country with millions of migrants and caused rising inflation and unemployment, officially admitted the negative impact of migrants on workers’ wages with the 12th Development Plan submitted to the Planning Commission and Budget of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

UNREGISTERED EMPLOYMENT IS INCREASE

According to the plan’s conclusions, immigrants cause workers’ wages to decrease and unregistered employment to increase. Despite this determination, immigrants will be taught Turkish within five years, which will allow them to find employment more easily. In the development plan, which also included the admission that ‘Turkey has become the country with the largest number of refugees in the world since 2015’, the determination that immigrants lower the salary level in the countries they go to was expressed as follows: “The uncontrolled concentration of immigrants in low-skilled jobs, which has become an important element of the labor supply, causes a deterioration in working conditions, especially unregistered employment, and pressure on While the plan noted that automation and technological advances also led to a decline in labor demand and wages, it was openly admitted that immigrants would further trigger wage declines.

YOU WILL LEARN TURKISH AND YOU WILL BE GIVEN A JOB

The plan, which stated that “immigration and employment” policies could be harmonized to close the gap in labor demand that cannot be adequately met at the national level, stated that “non-formal education programs, such as the teaching of Turkish”. ensure the adaptation of immigrants to social and cultural life.”

The need for transportation, health and safety has increased

In the five-year development plan covering the period 2024-2028, it was noted that external migration has begun to have a significant impact on the demographic structure of some countries, and it was stated that migration generally leads to an increase in population. of cities and makes it difficult for families to access housing opportunities, sports, libraries and green areas. The plan said: “Increased human mobility, migration and the growth of cities make participation in social life more difficult and emphasize family transportation, health and safety needs.”