Mass Protests, Strikes in Turkey Over Erdogan’s Neoliberal Response to Miner Deaths

(Before It's News)

By Juan Cole

Turkey’s Public Workers Union Confederation announced a one-day strike to demand better worker safety and political protests have broken out Friday in a number of Turkish cities over deaths of nearly 300 miners.

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