Working people in Turkey are engulfed in a deep economic crisis. Facing an inflation squeeze and huge price hikes, the conditions and rights of workers in Turkey are deteriorating day by day. On May 1, International Workers Day (May Day), hundreds of thousands of workers rallied across Turkey to protest exploitation by their employers and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government. Video journalist and new TRNN contributor Daniel Thorpe reports from the May Day protests in Istanbul, where workers united in calls for organized action.
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Pre-Production/Studio: Daniel Thorpe
Post-Production: Adam Coley
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My wife, (adult) daughter, and I have all noticed how expensive store-bought food (products) have not only gotten, but how the prices keep going up and up and up every day. Now is when we wish we owned our own land so we could grow and raise our own food. Corporate infrastructure and their agenda that is based on the Stock Market and an absolutely unsustainable, yet stock investor's required 20% quarterly growth is the nuclear bomb that is bringing the entirety of human civilization to its knees. The world-wide banking system which is operated by criminal banksters, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and every financial system linked into that system are, and have been, completely unsustainable for well over one-hundred years.
The Turkish people aren't the only ones wondering where their next month's rent or mortgage payment or grocery bill or electric bill payments are going to come from. Right here in Chattanooga, Tennessee, we are literally freaking out. I can't even sleep at night anymore. There ARE jobs available here, but the pay is so massively low, that it's financially not even worth taking one of those jobs because you can't pay your rent, mortgage, or other bills on such minuscule wages.
I feel terrible for the People of Turkey and elsewhere on this planet who are suffering so much.
1:47 nearly every man on those signs committed genocide against their own people.
1:39 its pretty funny to see a man in a nice shirt, a nice jacket, in a beautifully landscaped area on a clear sunny day bitching about capitalism….? Do you wanna live in soviet Russia instead?
so now we got Turkish communist?
Neoliberals trying to enslave the workers of the world
I went on two TDY's to Incirlik near Adana back in the early 80's. For the most part, the Turks were very friendly. Even strangers on the street were nice.
Sending love to the Turkish people fro the United States! 💖
Protest without destroing property. Nice. Unlike "mostly peaceful" protests elsewhere.
The reason for economic upheavel is the loans these countries receive. It's rigged and the vulture Capitalists steal everything so there is nothing left for the people.
Scary sounds like a pretense to communism
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everyone go on strike to change the system ,, this is way!
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