As division of an process against the urban leg of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), an umbrella system surrounding the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and other associated organizations, appendages of the Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (KESK), including its chief, were confined in diverse provinces across the country on Monday, media outlets have accounted.
71 appendages of diverse unions were confined on accusations of membership of a terrorist organization or abetting such an organization.
Ankara Police Department counterterrorism units bust KESK central office, the Education Personnel Union (Eğitim-Sen), the Media and Communication Workers Union (Haber-Sen), the Trade Union of Public Employees in Health and Social Services (SES), the All Municipal and Local Administration Workers Union (TÜM BEL-SEN) and unions like ESM and Tarım Orkam-Sen in Ankara on Monday.
As the explore of KESK central office was being acquitted, Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) parliamentary group deputy chairman Hasip Kaplan came to the assumptions to follow the police search.
In the meantime, many operations also came about in a number of additional provinces such as İstanbul, Diyarbakır, Ağrı, Bitlis, Siirt, Adana and Eskişehir.
Police bust addresses in the southeast provinces of Diyarbakır and Tunceli in the early hours of Mon morning. KESK chairman Lami Özgen, whose catch was unfinished on an earlier courtroom conclusion, was confined in Diyarbakır’s Silvan district, along with Eğitim-Sen Diyarbakır provincial branch head Kasım Birtek.
Police carried researches of many territorial union offices in provinces including Adana, Siirt and Eskişehir on the same day. Detainees, including Özgen, will be transmitted to Ankara to be interrogated by the Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office.
BDP co-chairmen Selahattin Demirtaş and Gülten Kışanak have banged the police operation, expressing that they consider it as an criminal operation purposing to curb the freedom to coordinate and organise.
In a published affirmation released on the same twenty-four hours, Demirtaş and Kışanak debate that the operations restrict democratic confrontation to the government by aiming the unions. “We decry this amerciable operation. We call for an prompt bring out of KESK President Lami Özgen and other union officials and workers,” the statement reads.
Labor Party (EMEP) Deputy Chairman Kamil Tekin Sürek also demanded the bring out of the KESK head and other union officials in a press statement directed to media outlets on the same day. He criticised the custodies and the operation against the unions, describing the act as undemocratic.
