Are You From Harran, Too?

I first heard the concept of a labor union in the film Züğürt Ağa, starring celebrities of the old Turkey like Şener Şen and Kemal Sunal.

The union members were earning more than the people of Harran.

Years later, these scenes are playing out in İzmir.

News about unions in İzmir keeps appearing before me.

The İzmir Municipal Union is rejecting a salary offer that is well above a teacher's salary.

While operations against municipalities in Istanbul are continuing at full speed, the unionized workers in İzmir are not letting this opportunity pass by.

DİSK members have completely cornered the municipality and are trying to pin it to the ground, with the support of some others.

Newspapers report that some of the union coaches have links to terrorism.

DİSK, which supposedly resisted fascism for years, has now turned its direction not toward the resistant, but toward the oppressor.

Let us say, may it be for the best for them.

They are involved in operations that confirm what I have thought about them for years.

My suspicions that they never stood by the worker, but only pretended to, have finally been confirmed.

During my time as a faculty member, I always stayed away from these unions.

While I like the concept of a union, I have never liked some unionists.

During the period when the people from Pennsylvania were dragging us to the guillotine, we approached the union so that the power of FETÖ might be broken a little, but it did not happen.

Once we understood their intentions, we immediately distanced ourselves.

Over time, I witnessed that their sincerity was fake and that they prioritized their personal interests over social welfare.

Just like Grup Yorum.

While great Russia was bombing civilian areas like train stations in its former colony, and blatantly slaughtering children, they went to Moscow and unfurled a flag of support for Russia.

They ruined their 40-year history.