General Strike of Public Workers (January 2025)

Public laborers are staged a wildcat strike across Turkey in January 13, 2025, against the salary increase set at 11.54 percent for the first 6 months of 2025.

The strike, called by KESK, BASK, HÜR-SEN, ASİM-SEN and United Public Labor, took place in Clerical, Banking and Insurance Services, Education, Training and Science Services, Health and Social Services, Local Government Services, Press, Publication and Communication Services, Culture and Art Services, Public Works, Construction and Rural Services, Transportation Services, Agriculture and Forestry Services and Energy, Industry and Mining Services sectors.

As far as we can determine, the strike took place in 65 cities including Adana, Adıyaman, Afyon, Ağrı, Aksaray, Amasya, Ankara, Antalya, Antep, Artvin, Aydın, Balıkesir, Batman, Bingöl, Bitlis, Bolu, Bursa, Çanakkale, Çorum, Denizli, Dersim, Diyarbakır, Düzce, Edirne, Elazığ, Eskişehir, Erzincan, Giresun, Hakkari, Hatay, İstanbul, İzmir, Isparta, Kars, Kastamonu, Kayseri, Kırklareli, Kocaeli, Konya, Kütahya, Malatya, Manisa, Maraş, Mardin, Mersin, Muğla, Muş, Nevşehir, Ordu, Osmaniye, Rize, Sakarya, Samsun, Siirt, Sinop, Sivas, Şırnak, Tekirdağ, Tokat, Trabzon, Urfa, Uşak, Van, Yalova and Zonguldak.