>From: Press Agency Ozgurluk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >26 April ,2000, Copyright � Turkish Daily News > >Workers marching to Ankara > > TURK-IS Aegean Region chairman Mustafa Kundakci said: We are >walking for workers' rights and reject the government's economic >policy. This march is the last warning for the government. If it does >not listen to the workers, we will turn Turkey to ashes > >By Zeynep Ozyalin > >Izmir-Turkish Daily News > >Workers, members of the Confederation of Turkish Labor Unions >(Turk-is) have started a walk to Ankara to protest against >privatization, to demand their union rights and employment security as >well as an end to political labor discrimination. > >TURK-IS Aegean Region chairman Mustafa Kundakci said; "We are walking >for workers' rights and reject the government's economic policy. This >march is the last warning for the government. If it does not listen to >the workers, we will turn Turkey to ashes." > >Kundakci went on to say that workers, civil servants and pensioners >were condemned to live in poverty, and added; "Listen to the Turkish >workers, farmers, pensioners and civil servants. Do not listen to the >IMF. At the end of this march, labor will win. Workers and pensioners >will benefit." He said that if the government did not heed this last >warning, the working class would, if necessary, use its power of >production to stop the government from carrying out its economic >policy. > >More than 150 from the Izmir branch started marching and met up in the >Manisa Organized Industrial Zone with Vestel company workers who had >been fired and were unable to secure their rights. After the Manisa >meeting, TURK-IS union representatives and workers from Burdur, >Antalya, Isparta, Aydin and other cities, were to meet in Usak to >march to Ankara on Wednesday. In Ankara the marchers will hold a >meeting in the Selim Sirri Tarcan sports center and after that >meeting, each group will visit it own region's deputies in Parliament >to explain their problems. > > >-- >Pressagency Ozgurluk.Org >In solidarity with the Peoples Liberationstruggle in Turkey and >Kurdistan http://www.ozgurluk.org >DHKP-C: http://www.ozgurluk.org/dhkc > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
