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The controversial "Bag Law" passed through parliament. Students sentenced for "terror crimes" are exempt from the amnesty for students. The right to social security of victims of the military coups in 1972 and 1980 was limited to those who were acquitted at the time.

The police intervened with tear gas and water cannons against protestors in Ankara who had gathered upon the call of socialist trade unions to encircle the parliament with a chain of people. The labourers wanted to express their protest against the "Bag of Laws".

Socialist trade union leader Çelebi criticized that the package of controversial laws included in the "Bag Law" brought several restrictions and impairments of labour rights. He called on the government to "stop the exploitation of labour disguised under a few positive articles".