Dr. Tellioğlu argues that OHS is a human right and Occupational Diseases arise in most cases “because employers avoid costs to secure decent working conditions. In the current system, the OHS professionals are paid by the employers directly, and they are not organised in unions and have no guarantee against dismissal, just like most other employees in Turkey.

Research Institute of DİSK publish a report about Industrial Homicides in Turkey. According to report, in Turkey there are 80 work accidents occurring per hour. Annually 706,000 workers experience such accidents.

Around 230 members of  DİSK/Tümka-İş, the All Paper & Cellulose Industry Workers’ Union, have gone on strike for better wages and working conditions. The members of DİSK/Tümka-İş, an affiliated of […]

On 13 May 2014 Turkey experienced what is likely to be the biggest industrial accident in its history. More than 1000 mine workers are still reported to be trapped following an explosion and fire at a coal mine in Soma, Manisa province, western Turkey.

We are furious, we are calling whoever is responsible to account and we’re initiating a work stoppage! We know whoever the responsible of the massacre in Soma is.

Turkey witnessed one of the greatest workplace murders in its history. More than 700 mine workers were trapped in Soma Coal, a private lignite mine in Soma, in the western province of Manisa.

Following the governor’s statement on the ban of Taksim Square for May Day demonstrations, Istanbul police restricted the access of main avenues and other side streets in Besiktas, Sisli and Taksim districts with barricades. The restrictions included halting public transport towards Taksim Square which affected local businesses, leaving their shutters down in Taksim Square.

Unions, including the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions (DİSK) and the Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (KESK) had renewed their request, underlining that the measure was incompatible with previous decisions ruled by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ensuring freedom of assembly. DISK and KESK members will meet to walk through Taksim Square.

Honourable Prime Minister Erdoğan We received news that on 21 April, police violently intervened to break up a trade union meeting which was scheduled to plan for its annual May […]

In Turkey, union rights and freedoms have been systematically and severely violated by legislation; government and employers as well. While fighting for a union legislation and practice in line with ILO conventions, DISK will be concentrating its efforts to directly put ILO Conventions in practice by referring to 90th article of Turkish Constitution.