Police smash strike
NZPA-Reuter Ankara Turkish troops, backed by tanks, have smashed into a State cotton-yarn factory and evicted 1000 protesting Left-wing workers after a' gun-battle in the Western Turkish resort of Izmir. Leftists sympathising with the Izmir workers clashed with the police and troops in Istanbul and the eastern town of Tunceli and bombed banks in Kars, near the Soviet border. The Right-wing Government broadcast a statement calling on the nation not to panic. In some of, Turkey’s tensest hours in months qf political violence, tanks and commandos armed with assault rifles surrounded the factory where the workers were protesting against the mass sacking of colleagues known for Leftist views. After the workers ignored an ultimatum to come, out, armoured cars' crashed through the doors and steelhelmeted commandos stormed the building, eye-wit-nesses, said. : Troops and the police herded the workers into a snorts stadiunr in Izmir. The city has had violent incidents in State factories and farms almost daily for weeks. 1
Police smash strike
Press, 16 February 1980, Page 8
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