Turkey’s president abolishes the retirement age by decree
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced the end of the retirement age requirement, which gives over 2 million Turks the possibility of immediately choosing to exercise the right to a pension, according to what was communicated in a press conference yesterday evening. Currently, the retirement age is 58 for women and 60 for men.
«With the regulation that we agree with today, about 2.25 million more people will be entitled to retire. No age limit to be entitled to a pension will apply,” informs a press release from the presidency.
The measure was loudly demanded by the opposition and by the unions, who demanded that, instead of allowing retirement upon reaching a minimum age, the requirement was the obligatory number of days worked before retiring.
The measure concerns those who have started working before September 1999 and who have completed 20-25 years of working life registered by the social security.
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