Call from Türk Eğitim-Sen to the Ministry of Treasury and Finance: "Civil Servants and Pensioners Demand 96.7 Billion Liras!"

ANKARA - Türk Eğitim-Sen President Talip Geylan pointed out that according to the August 2025 budget implementation results announced by the Ministry of Treasury and Finance, the central government budget gave a surplus of 96.7 billion liras and stated that civil servants and pensioners are getting poorer every day. Geylan asked the Ministry, "When will you give civil servants and pensioners what they deserve?"

Inflation erodes civil servant and pensioner salaries

General President Talip Geylan reminded in his statement that inflation in July and August reached 4.14%. Geylan emphasized that this has almost completely eroded the 5% wage increase given to civil servants and pensioners in July. Considering the inflation for the next four months, he said that workers are struggling to make ends meet and that they are not getting paid for their hard work.

Geylan called on the Minister of Treasury and Finance Mehmet Şimşek, saying, "Our employees, who are struggling to make ends meet, are not getting their hard-earned wages and are getting poorer every day!" Geylan stated that the 96.7 billion liras surplus in the central government budget should be used to meet the raises that civil servants and pensioners deserve.

Turk Eğitim-Sen called on the authorities to take urgent measures to protect the economic welfare of civil servants and pensioners and to prevent them from being crushed by inflation.