On October 10, during the rally organized by DISK, KESK, TMMOB and TTB, the participants were attacked by a suicide bomber and more than one hundred people were murdered.
Following this massacre, Nakliyat-İş has decided to stop working and make some protests and demonstrations on 12-13 October in such cities as Istanbul, Konya, Adapazarı, Kocaeli, Erzurum, Zonguldak, Karabük, Malatya in transport warehouses. Nakliyat-İş also made some demonstrations in some vehicle inspection stations in Istanbul and Bursa. Nakliyat-İş members in PTT and Municipality also stopped working and protested the massacre.
On October 13, 1000 Nakliyat-İş members in Topkapı transport warehouse stopped working from the early moments of morning and their union organized a march. After the march, Comrade Ali Rıza Küçükosmanoğlu, The President of Nakliyat-İş made a press statement condemning the massacre. Along with the flags of Nakliyat-İş, WFTU flags were also in the hands of workers in the first line of the protests.
In the statement, Ali Rıza Küçükosmanoğlu pointed out that the fundamental actor of this inhumane attack is The USA Imperialism and their “Great Middle East Project” which aims to divide the states especially in Middle East into many pieces. He added that it is time for Turkey to be divided into peaces after Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Syria.
Küçükosmanoğlu also stated that, as the government of Turkey, AKP has always been a faithful servant of The USA Imperialism, it is also responsible for the massacre in Ankara.