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Turkey’s Privatization Authority has announced that it has finalized the privatization process of a state-run coal plant in Yatağan in the Aegean province of Muğla.
A group of workers blocked a highway 1 for over half an hour to protest the privatization of the Yatağan coal plant.
The workers have staged a number of protests to show their disagreement with the government’s decision for the privatization for months. They had held a demonstration in front of the Energy Ministry in Ankara, which was brutally dispersed by the police. Their actions began more than a year ago when plans to organize a tender for the privatization of the plant was made public.
Nearly 4,000 workers are employed at the plant 1,500 of which are miners who extract coal in the galleries around the facility.