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Professional organizations to meet in İstanbul’s Maltepe Square on May Day
Professional organizations to meet in İstanbul’s Maltepe Square on May Day
Five labor and occupational organizations have released a joint statement and announced that this year’s Labor Day celebration will take place in Maltepe Square in İstanbul.
14 April 2022
7 political parties and organizations make a call for May Day
7 political parties and organizations make a call for May Day
“To the May Day for daily bread, peace and freedom,” say the Labor Party, Laborist Movement Party, People’s Houses, HDP, Socialist Assemblies Federation, Workers’ Party of Turkey and Social Freedom Party ahead of May 1.
5 April 2022
Police intervention against May Day celebrations in Ankara, İzmir
MAY DAY AHEAD OF ‘FULL LOCKDOWN’
Police intervention against May Day celebrations in Ankara, İzmir
Banned by governor’s offices in several provinces, May Day is celebrated today ahead of the ‘full lockdown’. Police intervened against the celebrations in Ankara and İzmir, taking several people into custody.
29 April 2021
The year of 1989 and the May Day of the year in Taksim
MAY 1, 1989/ MEHMET AKİF DALCI
The year of 1989 and the May Day of the year in Taksim
In 1989, Evren left office, Özal came to power. ANAP lost, SHP rose. Turkey was like a country with two constitutions. Amid hunger strikes, workers’ and students’ protests, they shot Mehmet Akif Dalcı on May 1, a day people were not allowed to celebrate.
28 April 2021 Sami Evren
May Day: Union Members Released from Detention in İstanbul
May Day: Union Members Released from Detention in İstanbul
Twenty-five members of the DİSK were detained after attempting to march to Taksim Square.
1 May 2020
A 15-Year Chronology of the May Day Celebrations in İstanbul: 2004 - 2018
A 15-Year Chronology of the May Day Celebrations in İstanbul: 2004 - 2018
Taksim Square, where the first large-scale May Day celebrations of Turkey were held in 1976, has been closed to May Day since 2013. But, how and where have the İstanbulites celebrated the May Day in the last 15 years? We have compiled it for you.
1 May 2019
May Day 1977 Losses Commemorated in Taksim
May Day 1977 Losses Commemorated in Taksim
Representatives from political parties, unions and rights organizations have held commemorations at the Kazancı Yokuşu, where most of the 41 deaths in the 1977 massacre occurred.
29 April 2019
Professional Organizations Make a Call to Bakırköy for May Day Celebrations in İstanbul
Professional Organizations Make a Call to Bakırköy for May Day Celebrations in İstanbul
The May 1 Organization Committee, which applied to the Governorship of İstanbul to organize this year’s May Day celebrations in Taksim, has announced that they will celebrate it in Bakırköy as the governorship has rejected Taksim request again.
26 April 2019
ECtHR: Workers Have Right to Celebrate May Day
ECtHR: Workers Have Right to Celebrate May Day
The ECtHR has announced its verdict on the case of Güler, who was given an official warning for being absent from his job after attending the May Day celebrations. Turkey has been found guilty of violating the freedom of assembly and association.
24 April 2018 Ayça Söylemez
ECtHR Convicts Turkey For Police Violence on May 1, 2007
ECtHR Convicts Turkey For Police Violence on May 1, 2007
The ECtHR has ruled on the application of trade union representatives complaining about the security forces’ intervention on May 1, 2007 during a demonstration on Taksim Square in İstanbul. Turkey has been convicted of violating the right to freedom of assembly and association.
12 December 2017 Ayça Söylemez
165 People Detained During May 1
165 People Detained During May 1
165 people who wanted to march to the Taksim Square were detained during May 1 Workers' Day.
1 May 2017
Police Attack Group Marching From Zincirlikuyu to Taksim
Police Attack Group Marching From Zincirlikuyu to Taksim
Police have attacked a group of people gathering in Zincirlikuyu district of İstanbul to March to Taksim Square for May 1 celebrations.
1 May 2017
May 1 in Ankara: 4,500 Police Officers on Duty, Streets Closed
May 1 in Ankara: 4,500 Police Officers on Duty, Streets Closed
May 1 celebrations in Ankara will be held on Tandoğan Square by the Confederation of Trade Unions of Turkey and on Kolej Square by Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey as well as Confederation of Public Laborer's Unions.
1 May 2017
4 Detentions at Taksim Square, İstiklal Street
4 Detentions at Taksim Square, İstiklal Street
The people who wanted to get to the Taksim Square on May 1 were detained on the İstiklal Street last night. Police detained two others walking towards the Taksim Square this morning.
1 May 2017
Unions Declare May 1 to be Celebrated in Bakırköy, not Taksim
Unions Declare May 1 to be Celebrated in Bakırköy, not Taksim
DİSK, KESK, TTB and TMMOB have announced that they will celebrate May in Bakırköy Public Bazaar in İstanbul.
26 April 2017
Anarchists in İzmir Explain Why They Undressed
Anarchists in İzmir Explain Why They Undressed
Anarchists in İzmir have said, “We haven’t taken off our clothes only but also ethnic, religious, sexual, biological and many more identities that the system dictated on us”.
2 May 2016
Those Who Lost Their Lives on May 1’s Commemorated
Those Who Lost Their Lives on May 1’s Commemorated
DİSK, KESK, TTB and TMMOB have gathered in Kazancı and Şişhane to commemorate those who have lost their lives on May 1s.
29 April 2016 Beyza Kural
DİSK’s May 1 Decision: Taksim to be Center
DİSK’s May 1 Decision: Taksim to be Center
DİSK Council of Ministers has expressed that they are working for May 1 to be celebrated everywhere especially at Taksim, and the course of action will be determined with KESK, TMMOB, and TTB.
13 April 2016
Governor Shuts Down Istanbul on May 1
Governor Shuts Down Istanbul on May 1
Istanbul's governor and police commissioner held a joint press conference this afternoon, saying that Taksim Square will absolutely be shut down tomorrow and no May 1 demonstrators will be allowed in the area.
30 April 2013 Elif Akgül
Court Sentences Singer to Two Years in Prison for Speech
Court Sentences Singer to Two Years in Prison for Speech
A specially authorized court in the eastern province of Malatya sentenced Kurdish-Alevi singer Ferhat Tunç to two years in prison on terrorism related charges due to his invocation of the names of deceased Turkish leftists during a speech on May 1, 2011.
27 June 2012 Ekin Karaca
May Day Children
May Day Children
Children were also at May 1 celebrations. They couldn’t shout as mush as adults but they expressed their wishes.
2 May 2012 Yüce Yöney
Notes from May 1 Celebrations
MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS
Notes from May 1 Celebrations
Hundreds of thousands of people celebrated May 1 in Turkey enthusiastically. There were clashes between the demonstrators and the police in Tunceli and Ankara.
1 May 2012
"No Incidents Occurred at the Last 2 Years”
1 MAY 2012
"No Incidents Occurred at the Last 2 Years”
Governor Mutlu warned “I won't allow the May 1 celebrations at Taksim Square if any incident happens this year” and the DISK Chair Ekinci answered “We have been celebrating May First there for 2 years, nothing happened. If they mean ‘provocation’, they have to remember 1977”.
1 May 2012 Nilay Vardar
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