CENTRAL NEWS
Since the day AKP came to power, they have been carrying out policies that exploit and impoverish society. While it adds wealth to its surroundings with some money laundering companies, it perishes the society from day to day. Since 2002, the year the AKP came to power, until this day 22 thousand 612 workers were murdered in Turkey.
The AKP government, which continues to cause the murder of dozens of workers every day with the money laundering companies it has acquired, is not only an alternative, illegal project; but new bills are being passed on the basis of these interests.
Cases opened as a result of the workers’ murders also mostly inconclusive. Turkey laborers who reigned until the end of liberal and surplus capital, workers, women and youth have been exploited for years. It has made its target the youth, especially as they are the pioneering and dynamic power of society.
While AKP’s universities have been transformed into semi-open prisons with new Ottoman-based policies, they are not allowing any student resisting against them, to work at any place by either tossing them out of university or blacklisting them. The result of these policies is the construction of obedient slaves on one hand, and young people who are losing their lives in the factories of capitalists, on the other. There has been a great increase in the number of murders of young workers which increase year by year.
The forms of precarious work, was implemented by the Akp together with the neo-liberal policies, and heavy pressure was applied to the trade union movement. Miners’ massacres under AKP rise increasingly:
- Soma,
- Ermenek,
- Şirvan,
- Karadon,
- Dursunbey,
- Afşin-Elbistan.
From 2003 to March 2019, at least 22 thousand 612 workers died, according to data from the press and professional organizations of the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Assembly.
According to years, workers’ deaths are as follows:
- 2003: 811
- 2004: 843
- 2005: 1096
- 2006: 1601
- 2007: 1044
- 2008: 866
- 2009: 1171
- 2010: 1454
- 2011: 1710
- 2012: 878
- 2013: 1235
- 2014: 1886
- 2015: 1730
- 2016: 1970
- 2017: 2006
- 2018: 1923
- 2019: 388 (first three months)
