Trying to end the protest, Anadolu Group’s owner Tuncay Özilhan, who is also the top capitalist, right-wing business association TÜSİAD’s top officer, called the police on the workers.
The police started to follow the resisting workers and call the workers threatening them with arrest if they participate in demonstrations.
Using the government’s so-called preventive measures against the Covid pandemic, the Migros grocery outlets’ bosses are forcing the workers to take unpaid leave. The owners and managers threaten and insult the workers who refuse to accept the so-called temporary leave without pay.
Protesting the unpaid leave, the workers have been gathering for the last 73 days in front of the Migros warehouses and the Anadolu Group headquarters, the corporation that owns Migros.
Trying to end the protest, Anadolu Group’s owner Tuncay Özilhan, who is also the top capitalist, right-wing business association TÜSİAD’s top officer, called the police on the workers.
The police started to follow the resisting workers and call the workers threatening them with arrest if they participate in demonstrations.
Secret and plainclothes police follow the union leaders from the DGD-SEN that represents the warehouse, shipping port and stevedore workers. They are routinely stopped on the street and searched.
When the workers carried the struggle to the home of the owner, he called the police again. The police attacked, beat and detained the warehouse workers for embarrassing a capitalist.
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