Güncelleme Tarihi:
Thousands of workers and public laborers participated in the rally titled "We Will Not Pay the Price of the Crisis: Labor and Democracy Rally for a Joint Fight Against Unemployment and Poverty" in the Kadikoy district on the Anatolian side of Istanbul.
The demonstration is organized by labor unions, including The Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions (Turk-Is), The Confederation of Public Sector Unions (KESK) and the Confederation of Revolutionary Workers’ Unions (DISK), and supported by vocational organizations.
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High unemployment rate remain a major challenge for the Turkish government despite several years of strong growth in the wake of two severe financial crises in 1999 and 2001.
Photo is an archive image.