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massacres in our
country.
While we were
preparing for the
opening there were
new cases of resist-
ance in the country.
Workers at Sartel
went on strike to
improve conditions
and in opposition to Turk Metal who were against trade unions.
For a short time, there were many factories in Bursa that were on
strike, and then in Ankara and Kocaeli tens of thousands of work-
ers went on strike. We too were not silent in this situation. On 22
and 23 May, 2015, we paused our own resistance work in order to
support workers on strike, we closed our workshop and visited the
resisting Renault and Tofas workers.
On May 28, 2015, we visited the visited the Zet Farma logis-
tical workers who had carried out their own occupation in
Hadimkoy, we also visited the resisting workers in the CHP-con-
trolled Sariyer municipal building (in Istanbul) who had occupied
the CHP provincial office.
On the one hand we engaged in production, on the other we
tried to organise solidarity with workers resisting like we were. This
was very important for us. Because if we did not create solidarity,
nobody would be aware of the existence of our own workshop.
But we said we would not allow it and would always be at the side
of resisting workers and the people.
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