Turkey: Workers Begin General Strike as Protests and Government Repression Continue

Click here to access article by Steven Argue posted on Santa Cruz (California) Indymedia.

The wave of massive protests that started in Turkey on Friday has not stopped. In addition, organized labor is joining the struggle. On Tuesday (June 4), 240,000 Turkish government workers in the Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (KESK) walked off the job. The Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions (DİSK) is scheduled to join the general strike today (June 5th).