Legalization of trade unions, which nonetheless remained barred from participating in politics and subject to close government supervision. Workers did not win the right to strike until 1963. A large confederation of unions, Türk I , was formed in 1952 and became the biggest labor organization in the country. It maintained a steadfast policy of political neutrality. More radical was DISK, an openly leftist union founded in 1967. The Turkish Workers' Party, a Marxist organization, appeared in 1962 but appealed only to a tiny constituency of industrial workers and Kurds. | 1 |
