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15 Nov 2005

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International Labor Rights Fund

Human Rights Group Sues Coca-Cola for Torture of Workers in Turkey

The International Labor Rights Fund will sue Coca-Cola in Federal District Court in Manhattan on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2005, on behalf of 14 truck drivers and other transport workers employed by the soft drink giant at its facilities in Istanbul, Turkey, and some of the workers' spouses and children... The Turkish plaintiffs allege that Coke called in the notoriously brutal Turkish "special branch" police (Cevik Kuvvet) to break up a peaceful protest by the families of workers who were summarily fired by the company for joining a labor union.