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Esatoglu, Hakan Yesilyurt, Ilkay Akkaya, Gulay, Cengiz Bozkurt,
Serhat Tutumluer, the Otekiler Music Collective, Guler Ince,
Burcu Demir, Merve Tuba Taruk and Ezgi Kaya.

The artists volunteered to model the sweaters that Kazova
workers produced with the labour of their own hands. To be sure,

this was not a fashion show by a firm of stylists. For the first time
in the world ever, a factory under occupation had held a fashion
show with its own output. About 2,000 spectators watched the
fashion show, which continued with a short film commemorating
and describing Tuncel Kurtiz who had died the previous day. Film
of Tuncel Kurtiz’s poem which he recited at Grup Yorum’s concert
in Inonu stadium was again shown. After Tuncel Kurtiz, Metin
Yegin, who had put in major efforts to prepare the fashion show,
came forward. Metin Yegin said the workers were coming forward

with their own fashion shows to rival those of the bourgeoisie.
Yegin said that the “fashion” of the workers was occupation, re-
sistance and production and in following years the fashion of the
workers would be “occupy, resist and produce”.

Certainly our artist friends who came to the concert did not
just come to model the products of Kazova workers. Our artists
put on the sweaters produced by Kazova workers and came on
stage and sang songs for Kazova workers. Ilkay Akkaya, Hakan Yesi-

lyurt and Gulay came on stage.

The People’s Law Bureau was holding an international sym-
posium in honour of Fuat Erdogan and lawyers involved in work-
ers’ resistance in Argentina, Chile and Brazil came on stage and
saluted the resistance of the workers. A lawyer from Argentina
spoke about the experience of factory occupations by workers in

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