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May 09, 2012

NYT: Pious Turks push for labor justice

by Susanne Gusten
The New York Times

For the Turkish youths who set out to change the world last week, May Day began with prayers.

Prostrating themselves outside the mosque in Istanbul’s pious neighborhood of Fatih, hundreds of young men and women prayed for the souls of the workers killed in Turkey’s all too common industrial accidents. Then they picked up their placards and marched across town to join the leftists and labor unions at their rally in Taksim square.

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