"Turkish union demands minimum wage rise of 23% in key pay talks", 28 November 2018

Turkish labour union TÜRK-İŞ is demanding the government increase the nation’s minimum wage for next year by 23 percent, and back-date the measure, in pay talks seen by investors as a test of Turkey’s commitment to austerity.

Turkish unions, employers and the government will start the pay negotiations on Dec. 6 under the chairmanship of Family, Labour and Social Services Minister Zehra Zümrüt Selçuk... A worker will sit on the Minimum Wage Setting Commission for the first time, as well as labour unions and company executives, to explain the current financial circumstances of low-pay earners...

Following the meeting... labour unions and employers [will] negotiate. A final meeting will then be held with government representatives in a 10-member commission, with a deciding vote held by the head of the commission, who will be appointed by the government beforehand...