KESK called for a central protest action in Ankara against the draft law 4+4+4 in the education sector and a law named number 4688, which does not include the right of strike and targets KESK; however the action was banned by the ministry of interior. KESK members coming from many cities have been stopped by the police on their way to Ankara. Only in Adana, 74 people affiliated to KESK have been detained. However, no obstacle could finally stop them to successfully organise their protest. Despite all attacks, gas bombs and pressurized water, the unionists gave a clear message to the AKP government and the fascist state with their resistance: we will not surrender. {divide}
The KESK Members were determined to get to the central square of Ankara, Kizilay and gathered on March 28 at the Gazi Mustafa Kemal Boulevard, one of the 4 main roads leading to Kizilay. There, they made a sit-in of 32 hours supported by various organisations like SDP , ODP , TKP, B DSP , DHF , ESP , Alinteri, Partizan, Kaldirac, Tüm IGD, Ogrenci Kolektifleri, Dev-Lis, Liseli Genc Umut, Sürekli Devrim Hareketi, Genc-Sen and YDG. Sebahat Tuncel, Istanbul MP of the BDP also supported the labourers visiting their action. They lit fires against the cold rainy weather and warmed up the whole night with dancing, singing and shouting slogans like "no to child brides and child workers", "For free, scientific education in mother tongue", Everywhere is Kizilay, everywhere is resistance", "the labourers are marching, resistance is growing".
Meanwhile the people at the action were greeting the morning by singing marches, the police started their provocations trying to divide members of KESK and those of political parties. However, these attempts were answered with slogans like "long live revolutionary solidarity.
The general president of KESK Lami Ozgen stated, that it is their democratic right to demonstrate to the parliament and led the deputies hear their voice and demanded that the barricades of the police should be removed. Let away remove the barricades, the police started to attack the masses brutally with gas, truncheons and pressurized water. However trade-unionists from KESK and revolutionaries resisted shoulder on shoulder about two hours to the intensive attack.
In Istanbul, thousands of people gathered on March 29 in Taksim in order to condemn the police attack in Ankara and the 4+4+4 law.
On April 2, KESK was again in Ankara marching to the parliament and demanding the withdrawal of the law number 4688, about which the parliamentary debates started that day. This time, the police was forced to remove the barricades and they successfully marched to the parliament.