Türkiye
Strategies for youth employment
- Strategies for youth employment
- Yes
Youth employment strategy planned in the next 2 years
- Discussions within the government
- Yes
- Consultations with national-level stakeholders (e.g. employers’ and workers’ associations, youth councils, etc.)
- Yes
- A draft strategy already exists
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- No
Countries with national action plans for youth employment
- Monitoring framework (timeline and activity/outcome indicators, e.g. youth labour market indicators)
- Yes
- Funding (indicative budget to implement the plan)
- No
- Institutional responsibilities (e.g. ministries/agencies in charge of specific planned activities )
- Yes
- Other, specify
- No
Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Yes
Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
Youth are a target group in Türkiye’s employment policy framework. The National Youth Employment Strategy, which has been implemented and completed, was entirely focused on promoting youth employment through dedicated targets and measures. In addition, youth employment is addressed within the broader scope of the National Employment Strategy, particularly under the headings of “increasing the employment of groups requiring special policies” and “developing inclusive employment.” These sections outline both current and planned policies aimed at improving labour market outcomes for young people.Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
Türkiye’s fundamental policy objective is to increase youth employment under decent working conditions.Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Yes
Policy areas in national youth employment strategies
- Macroeconomic and Sectoral policies
- No
- Enterprise Development
- No
- Education, Training and skills development
- Yes
- Labour Demand
- Yes
- Labour Law and Legislation
- No
- Labour Market Policies
- No
- Other (please specify)
- No
Social partners' inclusion in the youth employment strategy
- Workers
- Implementation of youth employment strategies/programmes (e.g. social partners as official implementers of the strategy or programme)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Assessment of youth employability (alignment of youth qualifications and skills to labour market needs)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Fully involved
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Fully involved
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Fully involved
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Fully involved
- Employers
- Implementation of youth employment strategies/programmes (e.g. social partners as official implementers of the strategy or programme)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Assessment of youth employability (alignment of youth qualifications and skills to labour market needs)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Fully involved
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Fully involved
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Fully involved
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Fully involved
Youth-led organizatios' inclusion in the national strategy
- Fully involved
- No
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- No
- Consulted
- No
- Informed
- No
- Not involved
- No
Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
2025: Within the scope of all implemented policies, collaborations and coordination activities are carried out with all stakeholders with the understanding of social dialogue in order to increase youth employment. ____ 2023: During the preparation process of the strategy, meetings were held with the participation of representatives of relevant public institutions and organizations, professional organizations, social partners, non-governmental organizations, universities, private sector and international organizations in order to receive opinions, suggestions and evaluations for the measures included in the action plans. _______- 2022: All studies have been carried out with participation of different stakeholders (Ministries, public institutions, employer-employee confederations, universities and NGOs).Inclusiveness of vulnerable groups in national strategies
- Women
- Yes
- Migrant Workers
- Yes
- NEETs
- Yes
- People with disabilities
- Yes
- Low skilled workers
- Yes
- Rural workers
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- No
Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Yes
Additional information:
2025: Work is carried out with UNICEF on behalf of young people and children. 2023: Ministry of Labour and Social Security carries out joint projects with international organizations in order to promote youth employment. "Technical Assistance for Promoting Decent Future of Work Approach with a Focus of Gender Equality Project" with the European Union and "Young Women Building Their Future Project" with UNDP are two important examples of these projects.