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and opened a banner with the inscription “WE ARE ON
HUNGER STRIKE UNTIL WE GET OUT RIGHTS FROM
THE BOSSES THE SOMUNCU FAMILY WHO HAVE TAKEN
AWAY THE FRUITS OF OUR LABOUR” and they marched
with it to the tent. They shouted the slogans “We don’t want char-
ity, we want our rights, long live our Kazova resistance, we are

workers, we are right, we will win” with applause from workers in
the area they came to the factory and issued a press statement. In
the statement:

“Umut Somuncu has neither phoned us nor visited in per-
son. However, we did talk to him on the telephone last week. He
said, ‘Let me talk to three or four people. I will let you know a
time and place,’ he said. But for a week there has not been a
sound. Again we spoke on the telephone and asked him why he

had not kept his promise and he said rather insolently, ‘You went
to Gaye Somuncu and then to a Grup Yorum concert so I too gave
up on the idea.’ So we have this to say to Umut Somuncu. Months
ago when we started our struggle, what we said and all our state-
ments announced that ‘as long as we do not have our rights, you
will see us and hear our voices everywhere. You will feel our hands
on your collar.’ If this makes you feel restless, and you want an

end to it, you know what to do. Otherwise you are going to see
and hear a lot more from us,” it said. After shouting slogans, they
announced they would be in the same place, same time next week
and ended the action.

DO YOU NOT HAVE A CONSCIENCE?

On Wednesday 10 July, Kazova textile workers went for the
fifth time to Calik Holding, where Gaye Somuncu is the director

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