Erdoğan: 'Emergency rule is a solution for us to prevent workers’ strike'

Erdoğan continues to praise the state of emergency in Turkey over incessant attacks on workers’ rights, stating "Factories had ceaselessly gone on strikes during the previous states of emergency before our government, but we are now immediately intervening in such attempts"
Wednesday, 25 April 2018 05:14

"The state of emergency is a solution for us to prevent workers’ strike at factories," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Tuesday. 

Addressing the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) parliamentary group in the capital Ankara, Erdoğan highlighted his government's determination in its fight against the workers.

"Is there any strike at a factory now? Even if there might be a possibility of such a case, we immediately intervene in and break it," he said.

The state of emergency declared to restructure the state or to "cleanse" the members of Gülen network, one of the masterminds of the coup attempt, is not marked by the purge in the army or the jurisdiction, but it was marked by the opportunities offered to the bourgeoisie.

"In this process, there is an environment of tranquillity. They are demanding the state of emergency to be lifted in such environment," Erdoğan added.

On April 18, parliament voted to extend the state of emergency, introduced following a failed coup in July 2016, for a further three months. It is the seventh such extension of emergency rule.

Under emergency rule, strikes, protests and displays of civil disobedience can be shut down on "security" grounds. The state of emergency allows the Turkish government to rule the country by decree laws. It includes the granting of greater powers to security forces in detentions and arrests.