Economy, Labor

The domestic Turkish labor force included 31.3 million economically active persons in 2000. Of those, 46 percent were employed in agriculture, forestry, and fishing; 34 percent held jobs in service industries; and 21 percent worked in industry. In the early 1990s about 1.3 million Turkish citizens were employed abroad, especially in Germany, Saudi Arabia, and France; annual remittances from emigrant workers totaled about $3.1 million. The main labor organizations were the Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions, with about 1.7 million members, and the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey.