Association of International Workers' Solidarity

Labour Movement in Turkey 15 June – 15 July -

Workers are continuing to protest against the government's low pay rise offer in the negotiations for the 2025–2026 Public Framework Protocol Agreement, which covers 600,000 public sector workers.

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UID-DER’s Solidarity Message to Trade Unions and Working Class of Iran

(15.07.2025) Dear Iranian class brothers&sisters, We are writing to you from Turkey. As Association of International Workers Solidarity (UID-DER) we salute you with warmest feelings. For decades, Israel has continued its oppression of the Palestinian people, and today it is attacking Iran as part of the...

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Labour Movement in Turkey (15 May-15 June 2025) -

On May 16, members of the BTO-SEN union, who are resisting anti-union pressure at Queen Flowers, a Danish-owned company in Dikili İzmir, held a press statement in front of the Consulate General of Denmark in Istanbul. The protest denounced workplace mobbing, threats, and rights violations,...

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Hope Lives in the Organised Struggle Against Repression, Tyranny, Exploitation, Imperialist War!

Workers’ Solidarity Bulletin, No: 205, Editorial

(04.06.2025) Following the mass protests in response to the wave of detentions and arrests launched by the regime in Turkey on 19 March, the slogans “Shoulder to shoulder against fascism” and “No salvation alone — it’s all of us or none of us' echoed across the squares once again on May Day. These slogans...

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UID-DER’s Message to RMT Members Who Are in Solidarity with Palestinian People

(31.05.2025) Dear RMT members, class brothers&sisters, We are writing to you from Turkey. As members of Association of International Workers Solidarity (UID-DER) we extend our warmest greetings to you. Seventy-seven years ago, supported by imperialist powers, Israel inflicted the “Great Catastrophe” ...

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Labour Movement in Turkey (15 April - 15 May 2025) -

On 16 April, health workers from Health and Social Service Laborers Union and Dev Sağlık-İş union at İbni Sina University Hospital launched a three-day food boycott to protest poor food, inadequate water supply, and unsanitary conditions.

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May Day: Tyrants Won’t Last, Will Fall One Day!

Workers’ Solidarity Bulletin, No: 204, Editorial

(25.04.2025) We are going through an intensely challenging period on all fronts, as political developments in Turkey gain momentum. As workers, pensioners and youth, we want inflation to slow down, an end to the soaring cost of living, and relief from the daily struggle to survive. Yet our problems are only...

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Labour Movement in Turkey (15 March - 15 April 2025) -

İzmir:1700 workers went on strike at Sunel Tobacco, Oriental Tobacco and TTL Tobacco factories organized under Tekgıda-İş union after the collective bargaining negotiations failed to reach an agreement. On 12 April, workers’ struggle ended with a victory. Eskişehir:On 16 March, workers at Doruk...

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Mass Protests Grow in Turkey over the Regime’s Attacks!

(25.03.2025) Massive protests continue uninterrupted in dozens of cities across Turkey, particularly in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir. Demonstrations have been growing since March 19. University students, trade unions, leftist, socialist and worker’s organisations are joining the demonstrations to protest...

Labour Movement in Turkey (15 February - 15 March 2025) -

On 20 February, various trade unions held protests in front of the Provincial Directorate of Labour and Employment Agency in Istanbul against the arrest of BİRTEK-SEN Chairman Mehmet Türkmen on 17 February and the repression against the struggle of textile workers in Antep for their rights.

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