ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish unemployment hit a seven-year peak in early 2017 while the budget deficit rose, data showed on Monday, underlining the economic challenges facing the country a day after its social divisions were laid bare in a referendum.
Turks narrowly voted on Sunday in favour of constitutional changes granting sweeping powers to President Tayyip Erdogan. He has cast the reforms as necessary in part to boost the country's economic development.
