Immediately afterwards, the Communist Party of Turkey met with the workers’ families, organised protests and correctly condemned the disaster as a workers’ massacre, holding the company’s owners and the capitalist system responsible for the loss of workers’ lives, and called for the immediate nationalisation, without compensation, of all HABAŞ enterprises and all other large enterprises in Turkey.

Every worker has the right to a safe workplace, should be guaranteed dignified working conditions and should receive the full value of their labour. The memory of those who lost their lives and sustained injury must not be honoured with words alone. The power of the monopolies and the exploitation of labour in pursuit of profit must be ended.