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No rights, no future, nothing to lose: Türkiye's youth take a stand amidst precarity
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Equal Times
In Türkiye, fighting for workers' rights can come at a high cost. According to the ITUC Global Rights Index, the country is one of the ten worst in the world for working people. Tolga Kubilay Çelik, 35, speaks with pride as he recounts being arrested more than 20 times. Three of those arrests led to imprisonment, he notes. The most recent was during a protest calling for the release of Istanbul's mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, who was arrested in March on suspicion of corruption. Çelik is the (…)
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Collective bargaining,
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Brandon Johnson