Turkey's national research on the economic crisis impact on industrial relations national system is completed. TEPAV finalized the revision of the draft report, including the contributions of national debate participants.

ANKARA – As part of the project titled “The Economic Crisis Impact on Industrial Relations National Systems: Policy Responses as Key Recovery Tools”, TEPAV finalized the conduction of Turkey’s national research on the specific post crisis implications and recovery tools considered by key social partners. As the result of TEPAV project team’s research, one consolidated report including the opinions and perspectives of all stakeholders was completed.

TEPAV’s report provides a detailed account of the diversity of policy responses and private sector recovery tools in Turkey. The report presents several examples of social dialogue during the crisis period on national, cross-sectoral and company levels. A brief overview of the industrial relations national system today is also presented in the report.

Apart from TEPAV, five other partner organizations will also present the results of their national research. The project will conclude with the consolidation of related research from Turkey, Bulgaria, Poland, Croatia, Estonia and the FYR of Macedonia. Contributions from these countries will form one comprehensive report, detailing different policy responses to the impact of the economic crisis on industrial relations systems in Europe.

The leader of the project is the Center for Economic Development (CED, Bulgaria), partner organizations of the project are the Center for Research and Policy Making (the FYR of Macedonia), Euro College of University of Tartu (Estonia), Confederation of Trade Unions (Bulgaria), Institute for Public Affairs (Poland), Institute for International Relations (Croatia) and Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV). The project is financed by the DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion.