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Hopa people was our pain and sent our products to them to help
meet their needs.

When our people were murdered in Suruc (July 2015) we
stopped our machines and took part in a march to Taksim and a
reading of a press statement in front of Cevahir shopping centre.

There we were attacked by the real perpetrators of Suruc and some
of us were injured by the police.

We also spun the web of international solidarity. In the name
of the Young Cuban National Team on February 15, 2014 we cre-
ated a Cuban national team strip and sent it as a gift to greet the
Cuban national team, the Cuban people and Fidel Castro, and
also sent a strip to the Basque Region’s national team.

We got back our sequestered machines and are using them

to move to Bayrampasa where there is a well-known machine-made
fabric market. Since 2015 we have been continuing to produce for
the people in Bayrampasa. We established our cooperative – RE-
SISTING KAZOVA COOPERATIVE – a cooperative derived
from our resistance, and we gave it the name Diren Kazova – “Re-
sisting Kazova” because today and henceforth we would resist in-
justice.

The resistance we started for our rights in February 2013 was
turned into the Diren Kazova Cooperative in Bayrampasa, manu-
facturing both sweaters and T-shirts.

Working conditions

We start at 8:30 in the morning and break at 6 in the evening.
We do not tire ourselves out too much but the amount of work

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