The Turkish Employment Organization (IŞKUR)'s unemployment insurance fund paid out 2.9 billion Turkish lira ($600 million) to Turkey's unemployed population during the first eight months of 2018. The fund, introduced in March 2002, has provided funds for the unemployed on the grounds that they are unwillingly unemployed, having paid at least 120 days of premium before termination of the employment contract and at least 600 working days in the last three years, and applied to IŞKUR's fund within 30 days of termination of the employment contract. Read More