The unemployment rate in occupied Cyprus reached 15%
Turkish Cypriot daily Halkin Sesi (25.11.11), under the front-page title "The figures are frightening", reports on the unemployment rate in the occupied area of Cyprus, which reached 15% and writes that a total of 10.889 persons applied last year to the so-called employment centre in occupied Lefkosia asking to find job. The paper points out that only 107 of these persons were able to find job and underlines the frightening dimensions of unemployment in the occupied areas.
The paper writes also that in one year a total of 1054 vacant posts opened in the so-called employment centre in the occupied area, stressing that 981 of these vacancies were cancelled afterwards. Also, in the "public sector" of the occupation regime a total of 263 vacant posts opened and 233 of them were cancelled.
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