Turkish govt targets unemployment rate below 10%

Turkey's Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey would again leap forward in 2010.

"The growth rate can climb over 3.5 percent and may be over 5 percent," Erdogan said in a televised interview.

Erdogan said reduction in inflation figures in 2009 indicated that inflation would continue to decline in 2010.

Also, Erdogan said the government aimed to decrease the unemployment rate below 10 percent.

/World Bullletin/