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second when police, TOMAs and Akrep armoured cars arrived.
They said there was a complaint that we were stealing. We said we
were not stealing, if we were we would not have contacted the
media and we would have tried to take things away at night. But
they were not listening and attempted to arrest us.

Again six or seven of us got together. We announced that we
were starting a hunger strike and would continue the occupation.
We demanded that our friends who were arrested be released and
the machines we were not able to take away should be brought
back inside the factory.

The friends were released and the machines brought back to
the factory. Confronted by our willpower, they were forced to take

a step back. We put forward our demands. The machines were
back in the factory. But again we did not know what to do as the
boss did not pay up and the police did not allow the machines to
be removed from the factory.

We were now six months into the resistance and there was
no breakthrough. We had to build up our support from the pub-
lic. We had
started to

speak at the
neighbour-
hood forums
that arose at
the end of the
Gezi events.
There were
two forums in

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