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TURKEY: Unionists jailed for demo against anti-strike law
by Anarchist Black Crescent (Turkey) via ABH (SA
Friday, Dec. 13, 2002 at 3:18 AM
Turkish public sector unionists jailed for holding an "illegal" public demonstration against anti-strike law.
35 syndicalists -two of whom are our anarchist
> comrades- from KESK(*) are punished to 1 year 3 months imprisonment with the claim of not obeying to the "Meeting and Demonstrations Act".
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> The judge Sahin Kurt declared that the syndicalists
> did not obey the order of the police telling them "to
> split away" and offended the "Meeting and
> Demonstrations Act" # 2911, Article 32/1; that is why he "punished" them to 1 year 3 months imprisonment. The punishment did not postponed nor turned into fine as usual.
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> Syndicalists expressed that "from the beginning the
> court operated in prejudice" and "this decision is
> fully political". They also celebrated 10 December
> Human Rights' Day of the judge punishing them on 10th of December.
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> The court case was about a demonstration organized by KESK on 7th of June 2001 against the law about trade-unions banning strikes. The syndicalists were accused of blocking the traffic, passing through the police barricade illegally, not obeying to the police order telling "to split away".
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> We call everyone supporting struggles of liberation
> and labor to protest this venture decision of Turkish
> state and mobilize solidarity with those syndicalists
> facing imprisonment.
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> DOWN WITH WALLS!
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> Anarchist Black Crescent - Ankara
> abcankara@yahoo.com
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> * KESK (Kamu Emekcileri Sendikalari
> Konfederasyonu / Confederation of Public Workers Trade Unions): a reformist trade-union including democrats, leftists, (few) anarchists etc. including a few hundred-thousands of members
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