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Unite members pledge support for progressive forces in Turkey and the Middle East
Kurdish soliders hold a portrait of imprisoned freedom fighter Abdullah Ocalan [Kurdishstruggle/Creative Commons]


IMPRISONED Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan was compared by Unite trade union members to Nelson Mandela today as they pledged solidarity with progressive forces in Turkey and the Middle East.

Speaking at Unite’s biannual policy conference in Brighton, delegates lined up to attack the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Criticising the “fake results” for Erdogan in the recent presidential elections, London printing delegate Mick Cotter spoke out against the imprisonment of Turkish workers.

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