Kayseri MP Backs Unpaid Workers in Kartal Kavşağı Protest

Workers at the Kartal Kavşağı Project in Kayseri stopped working after claiming they had not received wages for about two months. The labor action followed months of unpaid salaries at the construction site.

MHP Kayseri lawmaker Baki Ersoy announced his support for the striking workers through a statement on his social media account. He said he learned that workers had been forced to protest because they had not been paid for their labor for months.

“The hand reaching for a worker's sweat, we will be found against the one threatening the person seeking their rights.”

Ersoy also alleged that officials from the loading company tried to force workers to sign resignation documents. He claimed workers were threatened with police calls and removal from the site when they demanded their rights.

The lawmaker directly addressed company officials, stating that the sweat of every worker was a debt of honor to them. He warned that no one had the right to seize labor, threaten people seeking their rights, or exploit helplessness by placing documents before them.

Ersoy said citizens had been patient because of the dust, soil, and hardships caused by irregular work progress in Kayseri. However, he stressed that this patience did not mean silence would be kept if workers' rights were violated or threatened.

He pledged to follow the issue until workers received their rights and warned that no one should consider Kayseri's people helpless. Ersoy concluded by saying results could not be achieved by threatening, frightening, or exhausting workers.

The lawmaker repeated that everyone should calculate their account accordingly, emphasizing that Kayseri stands with the hand reaching for a worker's sweat against those threatening people seeking their rights.