Unemployment in Turkey hits 10 percent

The rise, from 9.5 percent in the third quarter of last year, meant that to 2.428 million people were out of work at the end of 2004. However, the figure did represent a slight improvement on the unemployment rate at the end of 2003, which stood at 10.3 percent.
According to the DIE, there were 21.870 million people in the workforce at the end of last year, an increase of more than one million from the third quarter of 2003.