Public expenditure

Cultural expenditures in Turkey increased by 5.9 percent compared to the previous year, reaching 60.3 billion Turkish Liras ($4.46 billion), the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) said on Dec. 1.

The draft budget report 2022 presents marginal changes in relation to the draft, according to the Budget Office of the Parliament.

"The estimated growth rate of this year has increased to 6.9% (compared to 6.1% in the Preliminary Plan), while the forecast for 2022 has remained unchanged at 4.5%," it said.

Firefighters are one of the groups in the forefront of the coronavirus crisis response. In many countries they are involved not only in their traditional role, but also in helping to assure other essential services to their communities such as driving ambulances, delivery of medicines and food, covid-19 testing or retrieval of the deceased.