The following statement has been issued by our comrades in Birlesik Metal IS Turkey.
By Eyup Ozer of Birlesik Metal IS
Secular, Democratic, Independent, Social State of Law cannot be created by Dictators, it will be creation of workers!
We are going through extraordinary days.
Our country once again came to the verge of a coup d’etat. Starting with yesterday evenning, discussion about a military coup came up. Our country many times has encountered military coups and coup attempts in the past and our country couldn’t recover from the pain and sufferings of these attempts for many years.
Our country paid very heavy prices for these.
Current anti-democratic governance which ignores rule of law, ignores public opinion and attack worker rights and governs the country for many years has brought our country to the current situation.
Since past, workers and people of the country are the those who gets most damages and paid the heaviest price because of coup d’etats which suspends most basic human rights, destructs freedoms and attacks workers’ rights.
Suspension of Constitution, dismantling of rule of law, suspension of freedoms cannot be acceptable regardless of which kind of juntaist and authoritarian mindset they are coming from.
Working class in Turkey will rebuild secular, democratic, independent, social state of law with determination and common sense.
