Inflation in Turkey: August 2026
Turkey’s consumer price index increased 31.51% from a year earlier in August 2026 and 1.84% from the previous month, according to the official release.
Headline
Annual inflation remained above 30%.
The August release shows continued broad price pressure even as the annual headline rate was lower than a year earlier.
Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels
Annual change in one of the three highest-weight major expenditure groups.
Transport
Annual change; monthly transport prices rose 4.82%.
Food & non-alcoholic beverages
Annual change; monthly change was 0.22%.
What changed underneath the headline?
Housing and transport were running above headline CPI.
Among the three largest-weight expenditure groups highlighted in the official release, housing recorded the fastest annual increase at 39.77%, followed by transport at 35.08% and food and non-alcoholic beverages at 33.79%.
Core indicator
The special CPI indicator B — which excludes unprocessed food, energy, alcoholic beverages, tobacco and gold — rose 30.68% year on year and 1.84% month on month in August.
How to read this brief
CPI measures the change over time in the prices of a defined basket of consumer goods and services. Annual inflation compares the index with the same month a year earlier; monthly inflation compares it with the previous month. Contribution figures show how much each group adds to the overall change, which depends on both price movement and expenditure weight.
Source
Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK), Consumer Price Index, August 2026, bulletin no. 58290.
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This page is an independent Turkey Insights Lab presentation and analysis of publicly released official statistics; it is not an original TIL survey.