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Turkish police break up protest by miners on hunger strike
ANKARA (AFP) : Turkish police fired tear gas on Monday to break up a protest by scores of miners who have been on hunger strike for a week demanding unpaid wages. The 110 lignite miners made a nine-day, 180-kilometer (112-mile) trek on foot from the central province of Eskisehir to the capital, Ankara, and have been staging a shirtless sit-in outside the energy ministry for a week, demanding a meeting with the minister. They have refused to back…
Ankara, 27 Apr. (askanews) - Contests in Ankara between Turkish police and miners on hunger strike, arrived on the eighth day of protest.
Police crack down on miners on hunger strike in Ankara, detain union leaders - Turkish Minute
Police on Monday cracked down on coal miners who are on a hunger strike in Ankara, using tear gas and detaining union leaders as workers attempted to march to the energy ministry to demand unpaid wages, according to Turkish media reports.
TİP (Workers' Party of Turkey) Chairman Erkan Baş watched the Galatasaray-Fenerbahçe derby with the Doruk Mining workers who are continuing their resistance in Ankara. Baş said, "Tomorrow at 12:00 we will march to the Ministry of Energy, we expect all of you to support us."
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