Turkey's trade union staging 2-day strike

Turkey's trade union staging 2-day strike
June 4, 2013 - 09:43 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - One of Turkey's big trade union groups is staging a two-day strike to support continuing anti-government protests in a number of cities, BBC News reported.

The left-wing Kesk trade union confederation, representing some 240,000 workers, accused the government of committing "state terror".

Protests and clashes with police continued into the night on Monday.

A second death in the protests has been confirmed by the governor's office in the southern city of Antakya.

Abdullah Comert, 22, a member of the youth wing of the opposition Republican People's Party, was was "seriously wounded... after gunfire from an unidentified person," the governor's office said, adding that he died later in hospital.

Earlier, the Turkish Doctors' Union said 20-year-old Mehmet Ayvalitas was hit by a car on Sunday, June 2 which ignored warnings to stop and ploughed into a crowd of protestors in the Mayis district of Istanbul.

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