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from their bosses. As on every Wednesday, they gathered in front
of Sisli mosque at half past one on Wednesday 11 September 2013
and marched to the factory. This week it started at half past one
because the DIH were carrying out a sit-down protest in front of
DISK. In this week’s march there was support from people coming
from the Merter forum. They continued the march with the same

slogans with which they had started, “We will not allow Umit So-
muncu to take away our rights, rights are not given, they are taken,
victory is won in the streets, we are workers, we are right, we will
win”. In their press statement in front of the building in Bomonti,
they said they had exposed the bosses, including Gaye Somuncu.
Gaye Somuncu had made a complaint to the prosecutor’s office
saying that the workers Bulent Unal and Aynur Aydemir had

threatened her. She had never come together with the workers.
Only once had they met and spoken with Calik Holding or Gaye
Somuncu, and that was in the presence of Calk Holding lawyers.
Despite there being nothing like a threat, Gaye Somuncu charac-
terised being exposed as being a “threat”. Gaye Somuncu said she
had broken with her family two years before and did not see her
family. But the workers had seen her in the factory in January
2013. Moreover, in June 2013 the shares in Kazova were made over
to the same person. That is, claims that she had broken ties with
her family and did not talk to them were lies. Workers exposed

these lies of Gaye Somuncu in their press statements. Gaye So-
muncu presented this exposure as a threat to herself.

Action By Kazova Workers In Front Of Calik Holding

Our Anger With You Grows And We Are Stepping Up

The Intensity Of Our Struggle

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