May Day Ends with Excessive Police Violence
Unions ended the May Day activity in Şişli following the excessive violence by the police forces. DİSK president Çelebi said that “Our friends ended up in the hospitals. They used all kinds of violence. Whole Turkey became Taksim.”
The head of the Revolutionary Union of Labor Unions (DİSK) Süleyman Çelebi and the head of the Confederation of Public Employees Trade Unions (KESK) İsmail Hakkı Tombul told in a press release held together in front of the besieged headquarters of DİSK in Şişli that they ended the May Day march following the excessive violence by the police forces.
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“Although the Justice and Development Party (AKP) calls itself democratic” said Çelebi, “it is a two-faced party, demanding freedom only for turban (the islamic headscarf for women). They turned İstanbul into a prison. They applied all kinds of unimaginable violence and to the workers, treating them inhumanely. Now every square, the whole of Turkey, has become Taksim. Our struggle will continue.”
KESK president Tombul reproached the police violence as well: “They attacked us as if we were the enemy trying to occupy the country.” (TK)
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- Prosecutor Rejects Trial for 1 May Police Violence[03 April 2008]
- Police Law Has Brought Violence[28 November 2007]
- Journalists March to Protest Police Violence[07 May 2007]
- Journalists Got a Share of Police Violence[03 May 2007]
- ETUC Protests Violence at May Day[03 May 2007]
- Police Crashes May Day Rally[01 May 2007]
DİSK , Police violence , 1 May , May Day
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