[fse-esf] URGENT CALL-Trade Union President imprisoned!/TURKEY

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PRESIDENT OF THE DOCKYARDS' WORKERS UNION, DISK/LIMTER-IS IMPRISONED!
URGENT CALL FOR SOLIDARITY
ISTANBUL/TURKEY- Yesterday (11.06.2006) Cem Dinc the president of the 
shipyard workers union DISK/Limter İs and the organizing specialist of 
this union, Kamber Saygili was arrested and imprisoned by the Turkish state.
They were leading a worker resistance in the shipyards of Tuzla/Istanbul, in 
a company called DESAN.
The company did not pay the wages of its' totally 55 workers, and the 
workers are demanding their pay. The Tuzla shipyard is a place of intensive 
and flexible work, where every day the bosses gain millions of dolars, but 
they don't even pay the wages of the workers. Also nearly every day work 
"accidents" occur because the bosses don't make even the basic expenses for 
job security.
The workers initiated a resistance two weeks ago. The boss and the local 
state authorities firmly repressed the workers, although the workers 
continued resistance. They cut the roads, they organized marches in the 
shipyard and finally, on the 7th of June, they occupied the ship  which they 
had constructed. In each of these actions, the police attacked the workers 
with tear gas and rods, heavily beaten and arrested them. Also Cem Dinc and 
Kamber Saygili were taken under custody for four times.
The only demand of the workers was their wages to be paid. This is a total 
amount of 80.000 YTL (i.e. 53.000 dolars) and the boss rejects to pay this 
right of the workers.
Yesterday, the shipyard boss prevented the workers to stand in front of 
their work place and the police brutally attacked the workers and the union 
leaders. Cem Dinc and Kamber Saygili were beaten very heavily, in fact they 
were tortured in front of the eyes of other workers for intimidating them.
And the local prosecutor imprisoned these two managers of Limter Is with the 
claim that they "resisted the police".
Now Dinc and Saygili are being held in Kartal Prison.

We, as the friends of this militant labor union, call for urgent solidarity 
with the imprisoned unionists.
Brother movements from different countries can organize protests in front of 
the Turkish embassies.
You can widely circulate this message.
You can send your protest messages to:
Minister of Labor and Social Security Murat Basesgioglu
e-mail: mb at basesgioglu.org
Tel. no. of the Ministry: 0090 312 296 60 00
Minister of Internal Affairs Abdulkadir Aksu
e-mail: aaksu at icisleri.gov.tr
Prime Minister of Turkey, Tayyip Erdogan
e-mail: bimer at basbakanlik.gov.tr

You can send solidarity cards for the unionists:
Cem DINC
OZEL TIP CEZAEVI, KARTAL/ISTANBUL

or solidarity e-mails to this mail address.

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