With a march from Istanbul to Ankara, the labourer officials of the trade union KESK started an action to protest the developments during the collective bargaining period and to raise their demands for a collective agreement. On August 27, KESK members gathered at Bakirkoy Freedom Square, Istanbul, and opened a banner on which it said: "For a human life, we are marching towards a collective agreement". KESK general president Ismail Hakki Tombul made a speech stressing that the government makes empty promises in the collective bargaining period to distract the labourer officials. He listed the workers' demands in the following order "Collective agreement with a right to strike, a minimum wage of 1050 New Turkish Lira (TRY) and "the same wage for the same work".
DISK president Suleyman Celebi explained that first of all the junta Constitution of 1982 must be changed so that the labourer officials' right of a collective agreement can be accepted.
After the action, the labourer officials marched to the central office of the trade union Hava-Is when the police intervened and tried to hinder them. However, the labourer officials raised the slogans "The oppression can't stop us" and "By keeping on resisting, we'll win" and managed to overcome the police barricades due to their determined stance. The labourer officials then started their action to Ankara.
The action was supported by trade unions and organisations such as DISK, TTB , ODP , TMMOB , Tekstil-Sen , ESP and Emekli-Sen.

*As labour agreements are banned in the public service in Turkey, the parties are only allowed to hold debates on collective bargaining.