Gebze Haydarpaşa and Sirkeci Halkalı Commuter Trains Are Removed

Gebze Haydarpaşa and Sirkeci Halkalı Commuter trains are also being phased out. Action for the right to transport and work! On the grounds of the Marmaray Project, first between Pendik Gebze and then Pendik Haydarpaşa and Sirkeci Halkalı railway transportation is being closed for transportation.

This arrangement, which takes away the right of cheap and safe transportation from the workers and students, will also leave more than a thousand railway workers unemployed, send them into exile, force them into retirement or force them to work with precarious and low wages. BTS called for action against the usurpation of rights. We are publishing the written statement made by the United Transport Workers Union (BTS).

To the press and the public

As known; 30.01.2012 All expresses and freight trains from Istanbul to Adapazari, Ankara, Kars, Konya, Adana, Van, Denizli have been removed from the service as an excuse for High Speed ​​Train construction. Thousands of passengers were victimized, Hundreds of private sector employees were unemployed, dozens of buffets closed in stations, and dozens of Railway employees were sent to other businesses with temporary missions.

Nowadays, since the date of 29.04.2012, Pendik-Gebze and Pendik-Haydarpaşa and Sirkeci-Halkalı railway transportation will also be closed.

The public will take away the right of public and cheap transportation, at least two years will put into the congestion of the highway, after the MARMARAY transferred to the private sector and condemned to expensive access roads, more than a thousand railway workers to leave the unemployed, exile, forced retirement or directing to work precarious and low wages to say stop to MARMARAY project;

We are waiting for our esteemed press and our people to the press release we will make on Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 12:00 at Pendik Station.

United Transport Workers Union