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Turkish
union federation to call general strike after police raid
One
of Turkey's main public sector labor unions said it would call a
general strike for Monday after riot police stormed an Istanbul park,
firing tear gas and percussion bombs to evict hundreds of
anti-government demonstrators on Saturday.
15
June, 2013
"We
had already taken a decision to go on strike if there was an
intervention on the park. So tomorrow we will declare a strike for
Monday," said Mustafa Turgut, spokesman of the Public Workers
Unions Confederation (KESK), which has some 240,000 members in 11
unions.
A
second union grouping, the Confederation of Revolutionary Trade
Unions (DISK), was holding an emergency meeting on whether to also
call a strike, a DISK official told Reuters.
Use of chemicals in watercannons
Reports
of acidic chemicals being used in watercanons last night are
surfacing, the chemical seems to burn the body
Military
deployed
The
protests in Turkey have reached a next level with the government
deploying the army and the military police to fight the protestors.
This truck full of soldiers was stopped by the people on the streets,
but there are reports of more troops being brought in because the
police alone is unable to deal with the hundreds of thousands of
protestors on the streets of Istanbul.
People
cross the Bosphurus
People
crossed the Bosporus Bridge on foot and now have arrived in the
European side of Istanbul
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