Ankara’s opposition mayor awards municipal employees first holiday premium in 25 years
The newly elected opposition mayor of the Turkish capital, Ankara, has signed off on a religious holiday bonus for municipal staff, a common practice in Turkey that had not been implemented at the Ankara municipality for 25 years.
Mansur Yavaş announced on Wednesday that civil servants at the municipality would receive a bonus ahead of the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha (the Festival of the Sacrifice), left-wing news site Artı Gerçek reported.
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