Cost of Living in Turkey: Prices, Wages and Fares

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Heaps of red, orange, cream and pale green ground spices in cloth-lined bins at a market stall — Spices at the Spice Bazaar in Istanbul. Photo: Miomir Magdevski, 27.04.2019, Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped, file page.

Türkiye’s state bodies publish three sets of figures on what things cost and what people earn: the consumer price index, made by the Turkish Statistical Institute (Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu, TÜİK) and published by the Central Bank (Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası, TCMB); the minimum wage, from the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (Çalışma ve Sosyal Güvenlik Bakanlığı); and the public-transport fares of Istanbul, from İETT. Every figure here comes with its month or date.

In short · checked 02.11.2026

Three figures from state bodies, each with its month or date.

Prices, September 2026 (published 06.10.2026): the consumer price index rose 1.84% on August and 29.73% on September 2025.
Minimum wage, 2026: 33,030.00 Turkish lira (TL) a month gross and 28,075.50 TL net, from the Ministry of Labour and Social Security.
Istanbul fares, from 20.07.2026: a full fare on İstanbulkart is 46.20 TL and a full monthly Mavi Kart is 3,628.00 TL (İETT).

The tool · checked 02.11.2026

The bead frame

Each wire carries one figure, shown on its brass plate. Tap a wire: its beads slide to the left end and the ticket shows the Turkish sentence for it, with a Copy button.

September 2026, published 06.10.2026: TÜİK figures, as the Central Bank (TCMB) prints them in its price report, Table 1.July 2026, as the TCMB Inflation Report of 13.08.2026 prints it (source TÜİK): each item’s weight in the price basket and its annual change.

29.73%1.84%33.29%3.23%

27.62%−0.20%36.06%4.62%

46.11%6.25%34.73%1.24%

15.90%2.11%19.89%2.11%

37.65%2.15%44.66%4.10%

41.34%3.10%69.10%4.39%

29.53%1.41%33.91%2.68%

43.78%0.24%35.99%6.28%

44.18%0.45%23.83%0.80%

26.4%1.27%

59.8%1.08%

24.2%0.66%

46.2%3.65%

52.8%0.66%

44.9%0.02%

40.2%0.79%

40.2%0.69%

47.0%0.71%

One bead = 7 percentage points of annual change, rounded to the bead. The plate shows the exact figure.One bead = 0.7 percentage points of monthly change, rounded to the bead; a fall shows ▼ and no beads. The plate shows the exact figure.One bead = 6 points of annual change. The plate shows the annual change, then the weight in the basket; the bar fills to 4% of the basket.

The ticket

Eylül 2026: TÜFE, bir önceki yılın aynı ayına göre yüzde 29,73 arttı.

Consumer price index: +29.73% against the same month a year earlier (September 2026).

Five lines to ask for a figure

Bu ayın enflasyonu ne kadar?How much is this month’s inflation?
Asgari ücret ne kadar?How much is the minimum wage?
Tam bilet ne kadar?How much is a full fare?
Aylık kart ne kadar?How much is the monthly card?
Kira artışı yüzde kaç?By what percent did rent rise?

The price index, TÜFE

The consumer price index (Tüketici Fiyat Endeksi, TÜFE) measures how much the prices of the goods and services that households buy have changed. For September 2026 it stands at 29.73% above September 2025 (the annual change, yıllık) and 1.84% above August 2026 (the monthly change, aylık).

TÜİK, the Turkish Statistical Institute, makes the index. The Central Bank (TCMB) publishes TÜİK’s figures in its Tüketici Fiyatları (consumer prices) series: one row a month, with 2025 as the base year (2025 = 100). An index (endeks) follows change, not a price, so it holds no price in lira.

Oct 2025

32.87%

annual change; monthly 2.55%