Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced the end of the retirement age requirement during which more than 2 million people are immediately eligible for this right, he told a press conference on Wednesday.
«With the regulation we will share with you today, approximately 2,250,000 more will be eligible to retire. No age limit will be applied to make use of the right to retirement,» the president informed in a statement at the Presidential Complex.
Apparently, this request was one of the measures most demanded by the opposition and labor groups, which asked that, instead of allowing retirement at the minimum age, the requirement should be the mandatory number of days worked to be able to retire.
This reform is in addition to the increase in the minimum wage approved last week and six months before the Turkish general elections, as reported by the Turkish channel TRT HABER.
During his appearance, the president recalled that three conditions must be met in order to qualify for retirement in Turkey – the number of days of premium payment, the insurance period and age – but the approved reform changes this paradigm. Today, 13.9 million people are pensioners in Turkey.
«The regulation we have made covers those who have already fulfilled the first two of the conditions but are waiting for retirement only because of age,» the president clarified.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
