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for an agreement, they don’t come to the tent to summon us. For
example, I asked a person by the name of Umit Ozkan who is their
right-hand man: “The factory was closed on 31 January. January,
February, March, April, three months later, how are you getting
in? You bring a lorry to the factory, a heavy goods lorry, do you
take things from here? We saw you go inside.” 12 tonnes of thread

were sold, an invoice presented here. He said, “I don’t deny selling
it, money was owed to me so I sold it.” Well, there are things owed
to us too. He says, “I’m not getting involved with that.” I asked
the lawyers but if Umit Somuncu complains you will have prob-
lems, he said. So basically Umit Somuncu had told him, in two
months you can go off, sell thread, get your money. We thought
about it and said to the friends, there are things owed to us, since

people are going in and selling off thread, and making money out
of it. In this case let us go in as well. Whether there is or is not
something there, let us take a look. Seventy, seventy-two days later
we went into Kazova. We occupied the factory.

If we had not pitched the tent on 29 April they would have
removed a lot more goods. That very evening Umut Somuncu sent
word, a foreman working there who was a toady of his said, “If
those who go in there and make a list write down what is owed to

them, I will talk to my father.” We did hand in such a lit but even
as we did so we said, whether he gives it to us or not, we are going
in and getting the machines.

Two hours later we got a reply, he had talked to his father
and after Ramadan we could get them. They said we will get them
Wednesday or Friday, they did not give them, after Ramadan and
we had yet to enter Ramadan. We did not believe a word they said.

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