Tens of thousands of people filled the Tandoğan Square of Ankara, celebrating May 1 with the slogan "Resistance will win". The crowd, giving the message "We will win together", then marched to Kızılay Square.
Millions filling the Maltepe Square for May Day protested the isolation on PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan and the war policies of Turkey and supported Gezi protests. The crowd gave the message that people will together change the fascist order.
May 1 Celebrations of this year have been the most massive gathering since the protests that followed the Ankara Train Station Massacre carried out by ISIS. The crowd that entered the area in corteges, gave the message of resistance with their different colours.
Speaking at the 1 May celebration attended by thousands of workers and laborers in Diyarbakır, HDP MP Dersim Dağ, said that those who betray and pursue war policies will lose.
The May 1 rally organised in Konak Gündoğdu Square was filled with workers, women and youth demanding justice, law, democracy and freedom, condemning exploitation and war.
Workers, laborers, women and youth, who flocked to the May Day celebration area for a world without war and exploitation with the spirit of unity, solidarity and struggle, reached Maltepe Square with their demands. Slogans of resistance and struggle are rising in front of the stage.
With the participation of thousands, a march has begun to Maltepe Square, where May 1 will be celebrated.
Thousands of workers and laborers in Diyarbakır began to flock in corteges to the Station Square, where May 1 will be celebrated.
Scores of workers and youth organisations set out for Taksim despite all obstacles. Groups marching to Taksim from different ways, faced police attack. Police took scores under custody.
Stating that Turkey sees the Kurds as a threat, Academician Yektan Türkyılmaz said, “Erdogan no longer wants the statist Kurds, either. Since the old Kurdish politics, namely the 'loyal Kurds' and 'Partizan Kurds', ended with the Kurds within the borders of Turkey, it continues with the KDP."
Soldiers and guards were placed in the hills of Gürpınar. It was learned that a camera trap was placed in the area.
Ali Doğan Aktay in Bodrum Type S Closed Prison is being held in solitary confinement with the "special" order of the Ministry of Justice.
It was stated that 11 soldiers lost their lives in the last 2 days during the clashes on the Hakkari border line, and it was stated that everyone in the villages on the mentioned line was forced to migration, except for the elderly.
Continuing their struggle for justice uninterruptedly the Şenyaşar family drew attention to the sit-in of the Saturday Mothers and said, “Mothers did not and will not bow to this persecution. This struggle will continue until the tears of the mothers subside.”
Sending a letter from Sincan Women's Closed Prison, female political prisoners said even their shoes are being searched and that they are subjected to arbitrary investigations.