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there to Kazova. She is one of only four women in the resistance,
because of pressure from husbands. Her nine-year-old son Yusuf
dreams of becoming a journalist and he is often there because he
wants to write about Kazova in the school newspaper…

Yasar Gulay has worked for two years at Kazova and has been

working since the age of 12. Sometimes working with the lathe,
sometimes with plastic. “Normally I grew tired of working. You
watch the clock and then go. But today the taste is a different one,
you don’t get tired. Once enter, you only leave the factory three
days later. There are a lot of visitors. At noon, a lot of workers
come to see a factory “without a boss”. Some Kazova workers who
did not join the resistance come there to seek the money owed to
them. “As though we were the bosses,” he says, smiling.

The bosses’ room

We say the factory has been occupied. Certainly there have
been talks with the new owner. A deadline has been given up to
December. If possible, they want to rent part of the building as
the Kazova workers. Because they do not want the money of their
old bosses, they want the machines in place of the money. Because
they want to establish a cooperative and after that produce without

a boss. Bulent Unal worked for nearly two years in the sales de-
partment – “Our concern is to prove that it is possible to live with-
out a boss. Let us produce sweaters to get what is owed to us, let
us not go and sell them. We are ready to pay a price for our ideals,”
he says.

It is a complicated story but on paper the factory was split in
two because part of it was sold to someone else and of the 11 work-

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