May 1, the Day of Unity, Struggle and Solidarity in many cities
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- 14:00 01/5/2023
Workers and laborers filled the squares in many cities on May 1, the Day of Unity, Struggle and Solidarity.
Workers and laborers filled the squares in many cities on May 1, the Day of Unity, Struggle and Solidarity.
The lawyer of Sedat Yılmaz, who was battered by the police after being detained in Diyarbakır in the Ankara-based investigation, filed a criminal complaint for the suspects to be identified and punished.
Former HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş said: "Workers and laborers will first call the thief and usurper to account at the ballot box, and this will bring the end of the plundering power."
14 regions in Şırnak have been declared “temporary private security zones” for security reasons.
DISK members laid wreaths at the Monument of the Republic in Taksim Square.
Members of the Struggle Union Platform and İnşaat İş ve Enerji Sen, who marched to Taksim Square despite the ban, were attacked by the police. At least 6 people were detained in the attack.
Stating that the MKGP is an important field of struggle that provides solidarity among women journalists, women journalists said: “Kurdish women journalists have a great share in changing the masculine language. The platform gives confidence with its work, it is an important address.”
Being of a member of the Green Left Party's Istanbul 3rd Region candidate from Group Munzur band, by going into politics against the pressures on art, Cemil Güngören said: "We want to be the only voice against the one-man regime together with the Green Left Party."
All streets leading to Taksim Square and Istiklal Street, which were banned on May 1, were closed with iron barriers.
While the Green Left Party continues its activities in many cities, MP candidate Newroz Uysal, who attended the women's meeting in Beytüşebap, stated that dirty politics are being carried out over Abdullah Öcalan and said: "We will spoil their game."
48 of the 143 people who were detained just days before the elections were arrested and 91 were released within the scope of the investigation carried out by the Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor's Office.
DFG made a statement regarding the continuation of the detention operations against journalists and said: “Our co-chairperson Dicle Müftüoğlu and journalist Sedat Yılmaz should be released immediately. You will not be able to bend the pen of the truth, you will not be able to silence the free press."
The police, who attacked the Saturday Mothers and human rights defenders who wanted to make a statement in Galatasaray Square, where the blockade was not lifted despite the Constitutional Court's "violation" decision, detained 25 people.
Evaluating the Diyarbakır-based detention operation, ÖHD Co-Chair Ekin Yeter said: "The detention and arrest of lawyers does not comply with the 'legal security principle'. We will never step back from our determination."
Condemning the pressure on the Kurdish press and the arrest of their colleagues, Journalists in Mersin said: "As long as the truth exists, there will be journalists who will cling to it."