Blog: UNISON is standing together with our friends in Turkey

When Mehmet Bozgeyik, co-president of KESK (The Confederation of Public Employees’ Trade Unions), addressed our national delegate conference in Brighton last month, he inspired and shocked us all with his vivid and passionate address about the strength he and his comrades have had to maintain in the face of appalling treatment of trade unionists in Turkey.
However, this still couldn’t prepare me for my visit to Turkey, and the travesty of justice I witnessed in a court in Ankara