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The journalists say their wages have eroded due to the high inflation in Turkey, demanding improved wages.

Despite AFP reporting on Turkey's economic crisis almost every day, the company refused to discuss real inflation rates with its employees, says a union.

Employees of the agency decided to go on a strike last month. The union has announced that they reached a new collective agreement with the agency.

As the collective bargaining between the Journalists’ Union of Turkey and the Agence France-Presse (AFP) Turkey office has ended in a deadlock, a decision of strike has been taken. The AFP unions in France have released a statement about the issue.

AFP photojournalist Yasin Akgül says, “When we went to the Kemerköy Thermal Power Plant to report on its current condition and surrounding area, the gendarmerie told us, ‘We have a list, you cannot enter as you are not on that list’.”