DİYARBAKIR - Free Women’s Movement (TJA) and the Confederation of Public Employees' Trade Unions (KESK) Women’s Assembly have issued a joint statement on Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh in 2013. Condemning the Rana Plaza massacre left more than 1,000 women dead, the two organizations says, “The balance sheets of killing workers in Kurdistan and Turkey every year is a new Rana Plaza.”

 

Free Women’s Movement (TJA) and the Confederation of Public Employees' Trade Unions (KESK) Women’s Assembly have issued a joint statement on Rana Plaza collapse, which killed at least 1,138 people mostly women, took place in Bangladesh on April 24, 2013. The statement says, “We condemn the greedy capitalist modernity that shows itself in different forms in daily life and exploits the women’s body and labor.”

 

‘Hundreds of women workers are killed every years’

 

TJA activist Mekiye Ormancı read the statement and she said the capitalist modernity constantly restructured itself by applying to mechanisms such as military force, violence, controlling of women’s body and labor exploitation. Pointing out that as TJA and KESK Women’s Assembly, they carry out their struggle with the women in the world against massacrist mindset, Mekiye said, “The balance sheets of killing workers in Kurdistan and Turkey every year is a new Rana Plaza. Four workers lose their lives in Turkey every year, 1,500 workers lose their lives at workplaces every year. 20-30 seasonal agricultural workers, mostly women, are put in a vehicle for 10 persons. Hundreds of women are killed in traffic accidents every year.”

 

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KESK Cizre Branch has also issued a written statement within the scope of the same action and said, “Everywhere is Rana Plaza”.