May Day in Station Square: We want equality and peace
- economy-labor
- 13:32 01/5
Addressing thousands of workers in Amed, KESK co-chair Ahmet Karagöz said, "We demand a geography where equal citizenship and peace prevail."
Addressing thousands of workers in Amed, KESK co-chair Ahmet Karagöz said, "We demand a geography where equal citizenship and peace prevail."
The masses have started to gather at two different points for the May Day rally to be held at Kadıköy Rıhtım Square. Labourers shouting their demands for "labour, peace and democracy" are waiting for the time of the march.
1 May Worker's Day rallies to be held in many cities were called for participation.
Family physicians announced 9 demands by stopping work against the Regulation on Family Medicine, which they described as a "torture regulation".
Turkey, where workers, pensioners, women, youth and children are struggling to survive in poverty, will welcome the year 2025 with at least 11 million 246 unemployed.
Health workers demanding the cancellation of the “Family Medicine Contract and Payment Regulation” have called for a work stoppage to be held on November 5-6-7.
According to the data of Istanbul Planning Agency, one out of every 3 students goes to school hungry.
Police threatened workers who were fired for unionizing and demanded their jobs back, saying: “If I detain you, your children will not be able to find jobs even if they are smart.”
Lawyers have been banned for union leaders and miners who were detained while marching in support of laid-off miners in Soma.
Workers at the MKB Rondo factory in the Kimyacılar Industrial Estate in Tuzla have announced that they have started a strike.
DEM Party Co-Chair Tulay Hatimoğulları came together with seasonal agricultural workers and farmers in Şehzadeler district of Manisa.
70 miners protesting in Soma district of Manisa were detained.
TÜİK claimed that the annual inflation is 61.78 percent. ENAG was announced inflation is 100.88 percent.
According to ENAG, inflation increased by 5.91 percent in July.
The foreign trade deficit increased by 10.8 percent year-on-year, rising from $5 billion 298 million to $5 billion 871 million.