The increasingly poor situation of the Turkish people due to the economic crisis (the Turkish lira, for example, has been devalued again in recent weeks from one-tenth to one-thirteenth of the U.S. dollar) has led in recent weeks to large protests, mostly heavily repressed by reaction and often attacked, in metropolitan and mid-sized cities such as Canakkale, where police attacked the protest and at least two women sexually. In the process, crowds repeatedly chanted "Government, resign!"
The same slogan resounded again during protests on the 25th of November, the day against violence against women. Thousands marched in Istanbul, for example, where police attacked demonstrators with rubber bullets and pepper spray.
In Hisarcık in Kütahya province in the west of the country, mining workers protest against their downgrading from not being officially recognized as such. This has led to layoffs recently, in addition to poorer wages, leaving 200 open-pit mine workers in Hisarcık unemployed in one fell swoop - with no reasons given and no compensation.
In the village of Sulak, women resisted visits by the energy company DEDAS, which wanted to increase the price of electricity on the pretext of carrying out meter checks. In response, the gendarmerie moved in with hundreds of troops and armored vehicles, firing warning shots in the air and using pepper spray to attack the resisting women.