- Title: TURKEY: THOUSANDS OF TURKISH MINERS PROTEST AT PROPOSED COAL MINE CLOSURE
- Date: 23rd November 1994
- Summary: ZONGULDAK, TURKEY (NOVEMBER 23, 1994) 1. GV/TOP VIEWS THOUSANDS OF PROTESTERS WITH BANNERS MARCHING THROUGH STREETS (4 SHOTS) 0.31 2. GV PAN CLOSED SHOP DRAPED WITH BLACK FLAG TO PROTESTERS MARCHING 0.42 3. GV WINDOW OF CLOSED SHOP 0.44 4. CU PROTEST POSTER IN SHOP WINDOW 0.49 5. GV BANNERS DRAPED ALONG BALCONIES 0.57 6. GVS POLICE SEARCHING PROTESTERS (2 SHOTS) 1.12 7. GV PROTESTERS MARCHING PAST ARMOURED VEHICLE 1.21 8. TOP VIEW PROTESTERS GATHERING IN SQUARE 1.30 9. CU PROTESTER WEARING MINER'S HARD HAT COVERED IN PROTEST BANNER 1.35 10. TOP VIEW PROTESTERS GATHERED IN SQUARE 1.44 11. GV PROTESTERS GATHERED ROUND STATUE OF MINER 1.51 12. SCU OFFICIAL ADDRESSING CROWD 2.07 13. CU PERSON IN CROWD WEARING MINERS HARD HAT CHANTING 2.12 14. TOP VIEW APPLAUDING CROWD 2.20 15. SCU MAN WEARING HARD HAT AND HOLDING HUGE LOAF OF BREAD STANDING NEXT TO OFFICIAL ADDRESSING CROWD 2.27 16. GV PAN FROM HELICOPTER FLYING OVERHEAD TO TOP VIEW OF CHANTING CROWD GATHERED IN SQUARE 2.39 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Location: ZONGULDAK, TURKEY
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- Country: Turkey
- Reuters ID: LVA1GB11ZHNEBXG4EIQNP3H79WL1
- Story Text: Thousands of Turks in the Black Sea town of Zonguldak have staged day-long strikes in protest at the proposed sale of iron and steel mills and the closure of the region's coal mines.
More than 5,000 miners and their families held a protest march in the town on Wednesday (November 23) and shops remained closed for the day in a show of support. Of the town's 900,000 population 75,000 are employed as underground miners or in coal related work.
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