Turkey’s unions are dead, long live the cooperative? | ROAR Magazine
“The Turkish state is pro-bosses, it just wants them to make profit,” argues Aynur Aydemir, one of the members of the Özgür Kazova
cooperative. “Therefore it would never agree upon a workers’
cooperative of production. They want slaves, new slaves, young slaves.
That’s why they promote the women to sit at home and to have three,
four, five children so that they will have new slaves for the bosses.”
Accidents, killings, massacres: Turkish labor unions are
helpless as thousands of workers die every year, while their bosses are
shielded by the state.