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

[Alp Altinors]

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>From: "Alp Altinors" <farabundo_marti at hotmail.com>
>To: fse-esf at lists.fse-esf.org
>Subject: [fse-esf] URGENT CALL-Trade Union President imprisoned!/TURKEY
>Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:27:21 +0000
>
>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 &#304;s 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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