Page 15 - TURKRptOct21

Some 39% of the population of 84mn in Turkey regularly go online for shopping compared with 48% in the UK and 45% in the US.
Turkey remained “not free” in Freedom House’s internet report for 2021. Turkey’s EU-listed shipbreaking yards remain mass murderers for
workers.
Turk Metal, a labour union for metal workers and a member of the Turk-Is confederation, agreed terms with China’s Salcomp, the operator of Xiaomi’s mobile phone assembly plant in Istanbul, and the strike at the facility ended. Accordingly, all workers who were fired due to joining Turk Metal would be re-hired and the procedure for a collective bargaining agreement would be launched.
2.9 Politics - shorts
Floating power plant company Karpowership, owned by Turkish conglomerate Karadeniz Energy Group, halted supplies to crisis-hit Lebanon after its contract with the Lebanese state electricity company expired at midnight on September 30.
The US sanctioned five al-Qaeda militants living in Turkey.
German prosecutors said on October 1 that they were investigating a Turkish man arrested in Dusseldorf on suspicion that he was spying on Gulenists on behalf of Turkish intelligence.
An Armenian Christian cemetery in Van province of Turkey was destroyed by bulldozers.
2.10 Polls and sociology
“The destruction of the rule of law, which is the guarantee of our fundamental rights, is eroding the public's right to receive information... Oppression, censorship are now permanent:” Turkey’s Progressive Journalists Association.
15 TURKEY Country Report October 2021 www.intellinews.com