"Turkish unions call one-day strike
By Delphine Strauss in Ankara
Published: February 4 2010 23:23 | Last updated: February 4 2010 23:23
Turkish workers marched in Ankara and Istanbul on Thursday as six unions called a one-day strike to support employees fired from Tekel, the tobacco company privatised and bought by British American Tobacco in 2008.
Strikes are rare in Turkey, where legislation on labour relations does not yet meet European standards, and unions claimed the action as the most significant in decades."
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