[9][10][11] Veli Ağbaba, who was in the delegation whose entrance was blocked, stated that there were very serious allegations at the airport, and that most of those who died at the construction site lacked helmets and seat belts.
[12] The Ministry of Transport likened the events to the Gezi Park protests and said, "The 3rd Airport is Turkey's pride project, no one will be able to stop it and it will open on October 29."
[15][16][17] 24 workers were arrested on the grounds that they tried to prevent the intervention of the law enforcement by shouting slogans during the gendarmerie raid and they formed a WhatsApp group called "Direniş Grubu".
[19] ITUC declared that "we condemn the detention of workers protesting unsafe and inhumane working conditions" and called on the government to meet their demands as soon as possible.
[20] In the report published by the Human Rights Association, in addition to the bad working conditions and the violation of the legislation, it was stated that it remains on the agenda with work murders, and the workers who object to the situation and demand the improvement of the conditions instead of taking measures to solve the problems, and their employers who try to support the workers and their employers are detained with the cooperation of the state and tried to be silenced.