Citizens who found the minimum wage increase insufficient expressed their reactions on social media.

The Minister of Labor and Social Security, Vedat Işıkhan, announced the minimum wage for the year 2025. With the announced 30% increase by Işıkhan, the minimum wage rose from 17,002 lira to 22,104 lira.

Along with the minimum wage increase, unemployment benefits, severance pay, and the fees for General Health Insurance and Individual Retirement Insurance have also increased.

REACTIONS FLOODED ON SOCIAL MEDIA

Citizens who found the 30% increase in the minimum wage to be low reacted to the increase through their social media accounts.

In comments made on social media, it was seen that people said, "You didn't think about this country as much as you did about Syria," "The hunger threshold, which is the amount of money sufficient for a person’s basic food needs, is over 24,000. But the minimum wage is over 22,000. Shame on you," "If you were on the side of the workers instead of the bosses, you would lose more votes; bosses do not bring power," "Ways to urgently go to early elections through democratic means must be found."