Over the last days, the Israeli government has restricted access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem on the pretext of security measures and this decision was followed by violent repression and new victims from the Palestinian people by the Israeli army.

The World Federation of Trade Unions, on the behalf of its 92 million members in 126 countries all over the world, expresses its firm solidarity and support to the 16 residents who have been taken into custody in Kirazpınar, Gebze including Erdal Kopal, head of organization department of Nakliyat-İş trade union.

The WFTU secretariat calls the trade unions in all countries to organize activities, strikes, demonstrations, rallies to express the firm, internationalist solidarity of the international class oriented trade union movement with the millions of immigrants, refugees and displaced persons who are forced to abandon their countries, their homes because of the capitalist its imperialist wars and conflicts.