[Turkey] Protests: Peaceful protest

Summary

Single-source ACLED detection — awaiting independent verification. Workers from the Birtek-Sen union gathered outside a factory in Nurdagi, Gaziantep on April 17, 2025, demanding severance payments for dismissed employees. The protest was characterized as peaceful with low severity.

Supply chain impact

No commodities or chokepoints are directly mapped to this event; second-order effects depend on how the situation escalates and whether labor disputes spread to other facilities in the Gaziantep industrial region.

Watch points

• Monitor for expansion of labor unrest to other manufacturing facilities in the Gaziantep province
• Track whether the dispute resolution affects broader industrial relations in Turkey's textile and manufacturing sectors