"Turkey: 12,000 Tekel workers protest in Ankara
Friday, December 18 2009 @ 08:00 AM CST
Tekel workers protest, demand transfer to other institutions
Tekel workers traveled to Ankara to demand that they be transferred to other public institutions. They arrived on buses from 106 provinces in order to participate in the protest. Employees of Turkey’s former tobacco and alcohol monopoly Tekel, who face unemployment as a result of privatization, traveled to Ankara yesterday aboard 106 buses in order to participate in a protest demanding that they be transferred to other public institutions."
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