Restrictions and bans on the right to strike in Turkish Law

The right to strike takes place in the scope of social rights in human rights classification. Contrary to other social rights, states rarely take positive action when it comes to the right to strike. Strike action consists of reactiveness and its aim is to put employer's feet to the fire to be indulged demands about worker's labour relations. Stated in other words, the right to strike is to withstand against employers through the instrument of their power which comes from their positions in labour relations. A strike action doesn't have an influence only on employers but also on third parties because it causes the work transacting under the contractual relationship to be stopped. Moreover, states regard strike action as a threat on their political power because it is the most important instrument for class consciousness. It is a necessity to use strike action in certain circumstances especially if there is an essential service. All these reasons make constituting legal basis for strike action necessary. Legitimizing legal status of strike action and restricting it have been followed the similiar process likewise other social rights. First of all, strike action been adopted as right or as liberty on legal systems of the states. Afterwards it was put under protection by legislation in international law. In Turkish legal system, the right to strike legitimatised only for workers on labor dispute-disagreements. However it is limited through some rule of procedure and ultima ratio principle.