Major strike today and tomorrow in Turkey

Bar owners, housewives, doctors, journalists, academics, street vendors, Kurdish separatists, Turkish nationalists and students raise their fist to the authoritarian regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

In Taksim Square, the colorful coalition of wrath shows its daily presence wanting to send a strong message to the Prime Minister of Turkey, who in an attempt to downgrade the episodic demonstrations, carries out visits to countries in North Africa.

As British newspaper The Guardian says the average age of the demonstrators is 30 years old. The Turkish “Indignants” come from all social classes and economic-educational backgrounds.

For the Turkish newspaper Zaman, the sense of indignation in the Turkish people starts from recently enhanced ties between religion and politics, from interventions to the lifestyle of a part of the population, and the indifference to the demands of certain social groups.

Starting today the demonstrations will include one of the major trade union confederations, KESK, representing 240,000 public sector workers, which has declared a 48-hour strike by denouncing a state terrorism against the protesters.

"The terrorism exercised by the Turkish state against absolutely peaceful protests continues in a manner that poses a threat to the lives of citizens. Ferocity of the repression reflects the hostility of the Turkish government towards democracy," denounces the announcement posted on the website of the trade union confederation.

Many analysts believe the protest in Taksim Square can be easily integrated into the Erdogan strategy, as it is doing what the leadership of the opposition Republican People's Party was unable to do. And that is to negotiate, namely, Erdogan's Islamist agenda instead of being confined to a denunciatory and negative abstention.

Meanwhile, three Turkish protesters take things into their own hands by advertising their struggle abroad. Within 24 hours they gathered the not so inconsiderable sum of $ 55,000 for one full page in the «New York Times» to inform readers about the message they want to send through their dynamic actions. As they point out, they want a new dialogue with the Turkish government. Their campaign is called «Indigogo», as stated in Guardian, which has 1,344 supporters so far. The initiators of the campaign are three “Indignants”, Murat Aktihanoglu, Oltac Unsal and Duygu Atacan, who as emphasized in their statements do not belong to organizations and parties.