Police Stops The Anarchists Protesting Shipyard Deaths

Anarchist Bloc gathered at Taksim in Istanbul today (August 14) to protest the continuing deaths at the Tuzla Shipyards.

The Anarchist Bloc members, fifteen in total, carried black flags and a banner saying “It is not an accident, the murder of the bosses”.

The members chanted slogans, “The system of capital is the murderer of the workers”, “Capitalism kills both in war and peace”, and “It is not an accident, the murder of the bosses.” They also put over their heads sandbags to protest the fact that the shipyard bosses chose to use workers instead of sandbags to test their product, the lifeboat. 

“The deaths in Tuzla Shipyards is like a game score”

Umut Kara read the press release:

“The human life has no value. The Tuzla news are presented like game scores in the media and the losers in this game are always the workers.”

“As long as we are quiet, as long as we do not show our reaction to the bosses, as long as we do not organize, they will continue stuffing our lives into sandbags.”

Police intervened

Police intervened when the crowd wanted to march towards Galatasaray, few minutes from the Taksim Square.

When the Anarchist Bloc members asked the head of the police forces around them why their march was being stopped, the answer was they could walk without their flags, slogans and symbolic sandbags.

The group marched towards Galatasaray quietly, without raising their flags and banners. Once they were at Galatasaray, they raised their flags and banners, and chanted their slogans. (RFG/EZÖ/TB)