ANKARA - Police attacked the people gathered for carrying out “We want our jobs back” action despite rain and detained five dismissed public laborers.

 

The “We want our jobs back” action initiated my dismissed academic Nuriye Gülmen in front of Human Rights Monument on Ankara’s Yüksel Avenue and continued by public laborers has entered in its 432nd day. Despite rain, the protesters wanted to make a press statement in front of the Human Rights Monument and they gathered in Konur Street and wanted to march to the monument; however the police didn’t allow them. The protesters therefore unfurled a banner reading, “Nuriye and Semih should be reinstated.”

 

Police attacked the protesters and detained Alev Şahin, İlker Işık, Cemal Yıldırım, Simge Aksan and Nazan Bozkurt.