"Sunduz Akkan, a mother of three, bundles up and heads to the Sik Makas factory where she worked until October. The plant's roughly 1,700 employees stopped getting their paychecks in mid-2025. On October 7, workers went on strike. But that resulted in shock, not resolution: The very next day, 1,000 Sik Makas employees received text messages informing them that they had been fired. Sunduz Akkan and her colleagues have been protesting at the gates of their former employer ever since."
"In a solidarity tent at the site, they attempt to draw attention to their precarious situation. In January, they finally received their back pay. Moreover, they have won the right to corrections that remove the remark "Code 22" as the reason for their termination in work records. Code 22 stands for "other reasons," and employees fired under this code are ineligible to receive unemployment or severance pay."
It is a bitterly cold winter's day in Tokat, where Sunduz Akkan, a mother of three, heads to the Sik Makas factory where she worked until October. The plant's roughly 1,700 employees stopped receiving paychecks in mid-2025. Workers went on strike on October 7 and about 1,000 employees were informed by text the next day that they had been fired. The fired workers have been protesting at the factory gates and set up a solidarity tent. In January they received back pay and won corrections removing "Code 22" from termination records, but they continue to fight for severance pay.
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