The whole people shows its opposition against the Ozal regime. With a general strike they protest against the imperialist war, and show their support for the miners. Workers and civil servants put down their work. Shops remain closed, busses and mini-busses strike. Housewives symbolically show their empty pots, the garbage is not collected, even the merchants in the Bazaar are keeping their shops closed.
Some universities remain totally empty.
Their is broad support among the population. This is just one example of the solidarity between the workers in several sectors, the toilers, civil servants, students and artists. Everywhere they are welcomed and provided with food and drinks. They demand higher wages and social security. In the statistics world-wide of deadly accidents in the mining industry, Turkey leads with 119 deaths for every 1 million ton of coal.