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ers who were sent to the other side, the two who had the most
seniority pressed charges on the grounds of being owed 180,000
TL. This meant the 22 new machines on the other side were liable
to sequestration. They cannot touch them. They are trying to
prove that a folding screen was sold but essentially these machines
are to the account of the Kazova workers. There is an occupation

and there is really nothing that can be sequestered although they
have tried.

They have an ambitious goal. For example, to clean up the
ready-made department, and to use it for film shows or other cul-
tural events. They are thinking about setting up a crèche. Perhaps
even ballet lessons for children.

Slogans are written on the stairwell walls, in the offices the
calendars are stuck at February, folders on the table are half open,
ballpoint pens lacking caps are lying around, old visiting cards are
scattered around. On the top floors there is a greater sense of
abandonment… Most interesting of all, the old boss Umit So-
muncu’s room has an extra room, and there was an extra room
behind that.
There were pho-
tos of several
generations that

had been left be-
hind. But now
there is a bed in
the central one
of the rooms and
workers who stay

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