Istanbul, 25 January 2010 – Green Party of Turkey released an open letter to the European green MP’s and MEP’s about the resistence of TEKEL workers in Ankara. Ahmet Atil Asici, international relations secretary, called all the greens to support the workers who have been trying to defend their rights in the cold Ankara streets for more than a month:

“Dear friends,

As you may heard, thousands of workers of TEKEL (privatised once-state-owned beverage and tobacco monopoly of Turkey) have been on strike to defend their rights with their families. It is now more than a month they are in Ankara demonstating for their voice to be heard by the government. Everyone else but AKP government does. Recently, the Finance Minister of Turkey, Mr. Simsek, announced that “there is nothing to talk about, and all their (government’s) fault is to pity those workers”.

This is unacceptable.

These workers, victims of highly corrupted mass privatisations, are fired by government without their due rights.

Distrubuted across Turkey, these workers flocked into Ankara and recently announced their death strike. They let the government to decide till 28 of January.

Now, we as Turkish Greens already expressed our support for these workers.

We kindly ask for your support in two areas:
- Make a press release bearing your party or group’s signature
- AND come to Turkey to give your support with your presence (highly preferred).

Let me also note that these workers are receiving guests all around the world.

Turkey is in the process of joining EU, and in these days government want to do some legislation to harmonise working conditions and organisations with that of EU.

This struggle is important to show the government that the rights of people is not easy to be forgotten easily.

I am sure about your support, please tell me about your preference, i am ready to make the organsiation as smooth as possible.

Please contact me by yesillerbilgi@yahoo.com.trThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Thank you for your attention and hope to see you here in Turkey.

Ahmet Atıl Aşıcı
Int. Rlts Secretary of Green Party of Turkey”

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