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malaise

(269,050 posts)
Thu May 15, 2014, 08:52 AM May 2014

Turkey mine disaster: unions launch national strike – live updates

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/15/turkey-mine-disaster-unions-launch-national-strike-live-updates
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Yusuf Yerkel, adviser to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, kicks a protester already held by special forces police members during Erdogan's visiting Soma, Turkey. Photograph: AP



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They don't give a flying fuck about the working class - anywhere.
After your men are killed as a result of atrocious working conditions, they turn the hoses on you or the PM's aide kicks you in public.

This planet is out of control.
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seveneyes

(4,631 posts)
2. Turkish government bullies
Thu May 15, 2014, 09:13 AM
May 2014

That's some ugly behavior by the Presidential adviser. I just can't picture Rahm Emanuel or even Karl Rove ever doing such a thing.

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