{"id":3332,"date":"2014-01-21T22:13:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T20:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3332"},"modified":"2014-01-21T22:13:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T20:13:18","slug":"solidarity-with-502-turkish-trade-unionists-on-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3332","title":{"rendered":"Solidarity with 502 Turkish trade unionists on trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/keskistanbul.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3333\" alt=\"keskistanbul\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/keskistanbul-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/keskistanbul-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/keskistanbul.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m in Istanbul for the next few days as part of an international trade union delegation. We&#8217;ll be attending the opening of the second stage of a trial of leaders of KESK, the public sector union, over 500 of whose members have been charged with a wide range of crimes including terrorism. In the photo &#8211; Lars Bengtsson, international secretary of the Swedish national trade union centre TCO; Abdullah Muhsin, from the British teachers&#8217; union NASUWT; Eric Lee; and four KESK activists. More details tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Istanbul for the next few days as part of an international trade union delegation. We&#8217;ll be attending the opening of the second stage of a trial of leaders of KESK, the public sector union, over 500 of whose members have been charged with a wide range of crimes including terrorism. In the photo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3334,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions\/3334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}