"Turkey launches celebration to mark labor day
English.news.cn 2011-05-01 18:35:59
ISTANBUL, May 1 (Xinhua) -- Over 100,000 workers gathered in the center of Turkey's largest city Istanbul Sunday for a celebration for the International Workers' Day.
The arrangement of the Taksim square in central Istanbul for this year's labor day was designed the same way as the 1977 celebrations, with a stage set up on the south side of the square, where union leaders took to the stage and delivered speeches for workers' rights as hundreds of thousands of people assembled at the square, chanting slogans and holding up signs, which read 'May 1 for labor, peace, freedom and democracy' and 'Happy May 1st.'"
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