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May Day

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Workers on Their Way to May Day Celebrations in Urfa Have Traffic Accident
Workers on Their Way to May Day Celebrations in Urfa Have Traffic Accident
Workers who were on their way to May Day celebrations in Urfa had a traffic accident. While five people have lost their lives in the accident, 15 workers have been wounded. Four of the wounded are in serious condition.
1 May 2019
Detentions in Şişli and Beşiktaş
MAY DAY IN İSTANBUL
Detentions in Şişli and Beşiktaş
Police have intervened against the groups and members of political organizations who want to celebrate the May Day in Taksim Square. Several people have been taken into custody in the districts of Şişli and Beşiktaş.
1 May 2019 Tansu Pişkin
A 15-Year Chronology of the May Day Celebrations in İstanbul: 2004 - 2018
A 15-Year Chronology of the May Day Celebrations in İstanbul: 2004 - 2018
Taksim Square, where the first large-scale May Day celebrations of Turkey were held in 1976, has been closed to May Day since 2013. But, how and where have the İstanbulites celebrated the May Day in the last 15 years? We have compiled it for you.
1 May 2019
Van Governor Bans All Events for 10 Days, Permits Only May Day Rally
Van Governor Bans All Events for 10 Days, Permits Only May Day Rally
The Governorate has banned all demonstrations on the ground that the "leftist, marginal and provocative groups" are making calls for taking action in the provinces where the AKP lost in the March 31 elections.
30 April 2019 Hikmet Adal
May Day 1977 Losses Commemorated in Taksim
May Day 1977 Losses Commemorated in Taksim
Representatives from political parties, unions and rights organizations have held commemorations at the Kazancı Yokuşu, where most of the 41 deaths in the 1977 massacre occurred.
29 April 2019
Professional Organizations Make a Call to Bakırköy for May Day Celebrations in İstanbul
Professional Organizations Make a Call to Bakırköy for May Day Celebrations in İstanbul
The May 1 Organization Committee, which applied to the Governorship of İstanbul to organize this year’s May Day celebrations in Taksim, has announced that they will celebrate it in Bakırköy as the governorship has rejected Taksim request again.
26 April 2019
May 1 Celebrations Across Turkey
May 1 Celebrations Across Turkey
May 1 Labor Day has been celebrated in different cities across Turkey.
1 May 2018
Taksim and İstiklal Avenue Closed
Taksim and İstiklal Avenue Closed
All roads leading to Taksim Square have been closed to vehicle traffic and pedestrians have been denied access to İstiklal Avenue due to the May 1 Labor Day. Pedestrians are requested to present “an official document which proves that they work on May 1.”
1 May 2018 Pınar Tarcan
May Day Call by Union of Actors and Actresses
May Day Call by Union of Actors and Actresses
The Union of Actors and Actresses has made a call to the May 1 Labor Day with a video, where the members of the union have stated, “On May 1, we will not be at movie sets, theaters stages or studios, but at squares” and read out the poem “We Will See Beautiful Days.”
30 April 2018
May Day ‘Preparation’ in Taksim
May Day ‘Preparation’ in Taksim
Barriers have been brought to roads leading to İstiklal Street and Taksim square, which will be closed on May 1. Labor organization will hold the May 1 meeting in Maltepe.
30 April 2018
ECtHR: Workers Have Right to Celebrate May Day
ECtHR: Workers Have Right to Celebrate May Day
The ECtHR has announced its verdict on the case of Güler, who was given an official warning for being absent from his job after attending the May Day celebrations. Turkey has been found guilty of violating the freedom of assembly and association.
24 April 2018 Ayça Söylemez
13 May Day Demonstrators Have Been Arrested
13 May Day Demonstrators Have Been Arrested
Istanbul General Directorate of Security declared that 10 of 408 demonstrators, who were detained on 1st of May, have been taken into custody. The number of the arrested demonstrators increased up 13.
4 May 2015
Not Crime to Wear Helmet on May Day, Court Rules
Not Crime to Wear Helmet on May Day, Court Rules
Defendants charged with wearing construction helmets, diving goggles, gas masks and eye solutions during May Day protests this years have been acquitted as their acts “didn’t constitute a crime”.
27 November 2014 Ayça Söylemez
The Last Decade of May Day Celebrations in Istanbul
The Last Decade of May Day Celebrations in Istanbul
The 10-year long history of May Day celebrations proved the assumption of “something happens whenever police is involved” as police violence occured every year except the three years when police did not apply “security measures”.
2 May 2014
Stalemate Between Unions and Governor as May Day Nears
Stalemate Between Unions and Governor as May Day Nears
Throughout the week, the talks between Turkey’s major workers unions and Governor of Istanbul have resulted in a stalemate over the celebration venue for this year’s May Day celebrations. Governor Mutlu recommended Yenikapı Square for May Day, while DISK President Kani Beko stated that they are insistent about celebrating at Taksim.
16 April 2014
Deputy Submits Official Inquiry to PM on May Day
Deputy Submits Official Inquiry to PM on May Day
CHP deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu submitted an official inquiry to PM Erdoğan, asking him a series of questions including police violence, Istanbul transport shut down and pepper gas rates.
2 May 2013
Police Sieges Istanbul on May Day
MAY DAY VIDEO
Police Sieges Istanbul on May Day
The following recordings from police intervention in Beşiktaş constitute only a slight part of what happened yesterday for several hours in Istanbul.
2 May 2013 Beyza Kural
May 1st and the Academic Freedom
May 1st and the Academic Freedom
Sabanci University banned 1st of May posters. The administration did not hesitate to warn students that this kind of activity may end up with their expulsion from the University.
4 May 2012 Emre Şahin,Macin Starzewski
Notes from May 1 Celebrations
MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS
Notes from May 1 Celebrations
Hundreds of thousands of people celebrated May 1 in Turkey enthusiastically. There were clashes between the demonstrators and the police in Tunceli and Ankara.
1 May 2012
Lemon Juice and Scuba Masks for the Tear Gas...
On the Eve of May Day
Lemon Juice and Scuba Masks for the Tear Gas...
Even if those planning to join May Day celebrations are hoping there will be no problems, many are preparing for the worst.
30 April 2009 Emine Özcan
Trade Unions to Go to Taksim in “Reasonable Numbers”
On the eve of May day
Trade Unions to Go to Taksim in “Reasonable Numbers”
It remains to be seen whether the Istanbul governor and the trade union confederations agree on what a “reasonable number” of people in Taksim Square is on Labour Day.
30 April 2009 Emine Özcan,Bawer Çakır
May 1st Declared Holiday
May 1st Declared Holiday
Parliament unanimously recognizes May Day as "Labor and Solidarity Day".
23 April 2009
“We Don’t Need to Ask Permission to Gather in Taksim”
Trade unionist Okcan says that workers have not and will not apply to Istanbul’s governor for permission to gather in Taksim Square on Labour Day.
21 April 2009 Tolga Korkut
Workers Insist on Taksim Square
Workers Insist on Taksim Square
Following the government announcement that 1 May will be a public holiday, workers are still insisting that they want to express their concerns in Taksim Square on Labour Day.
10 April 2009 Bawer Çakır
Parliamentary Committee Sees No Violations In May Day Brutality
Parliamentary Committee Sees No Violations In May Day Brutality
The AKP members of the Human Rights Committee reject the proposal to form a subcommittee for the investigation of the May Day incidents to determine the human right violations.
17 May 2008 Kerem Morgül
DISK Takes The May Day Police Violence To ECHR and ILO
DISK president Çelebi tells that they will take the May Day prohibitions and the police violence, what they call “state terror”, to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and the International Labor Organization (ILO).
2 May 2008
May Day Ends with Excessive Police Violence
May Day Ends with Excessive Police Violence
Unions ended the May Day activity in Şişli following the excessive violence by the police forces. DİSK president Çelebi said that “Our friends ended up in the hospitals. They used all kinds of violence. Whole Turkey became Taksim.”
1 May 2008
Everybody Meets In Şişli And March To Taksim
Everybody Meets In Şişli And March To Taksim
Trade unions from DİSK, KESK and TÜRK-İŞ confederations, professional organizations and political formations will meet in Şişli and march to Taksim. Targeting the administration, Tombul from KESK says: “Do not resort to the shameful act of using violence against people”.
1 May 2008 Tolga Korkut
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