Civilian civil servants in the field of defense take action for their personal rights: 'The knife shattered the bone'

Civil Servants Union; The Ministry of National Defense organized a protest next to the General Staff in Ankara yesterday for the rights of civilian officers in the Turkish Armed Forces, Gendarmerie General Command and Coast Guard Command. The press release was read by Tuncay Cengiz, the chairman of the union.

Cengiz said, "We are civil servants who work selflessly in the Ministry of National Defense, the Turkish Armed Forces, the Gendarmerie General Command and the Coast Guard Command, who do not put aside the burden on their shoulders for a moment and are proud of this burden, who are honored to live under the shadow of the red flag with red stars. We are the civilian power of the most important, most critical and apple of our country's institutions. From its police station to its military facilities, from its ships to its submarines, from its tanks to its cannons, our efforts are in everything that is offered to the service of our heroic army, "Our concern is to get rewarded for our labor, to provide for our family, and to keep the civil servant identity that we have carried with honor for years, with the dignity it deserves," he said.

Emphasizing that it is not easy to make a living in Turkey, Cengiz said, "There is a struggle for rights in every corner of our beautiful country. Retirees, civil servants, workers and laborers all say the same thing in one voice. We cannot make ends meet! Is the reward for all this effort to be left alone with the question of how to make ends meet until the end of the month? Is the reward for the effort given to worrying about how to put pocket money into the pockets of one's children? We do not see the reward for the effort given in our personal rights. In this sense, it is a dead end." "He did not stand it, he completely destroyed it," he said.

Then the demands were listed. These include the creation of a "Defense and Security Service Class" in Article 36 of the Civil Servants Law No. 657, an additional payment of 4 thousand monthly indicator points within the scope of the Turkish Armed Forces Personnel Law No. 926, the provision of critical zone compensation to civil servants serving in critical and strategic provinces, a 45-day actual service increase per year, taking into account the nature of the duty and the risks it carries, and the ability to benefit from the social facilities and private care centers affiliated to the Ministry of National Defense, including the families and retirees of the civil servants. took it.

During the press statement, slogans such as "We are the power of civilians, we are the voice of civil servants", "We crossed the dams and flooded the squares", "Right, law, justice" were chanted. Additionally, officers posed by holding huge pens as if they were weapons. Tuncay Cengiz said, "We have no weapons in our hands, our weapons are our pen, our brainpower, the institutional memory we have been carrying for years."