Türkiye ve Brezilya'daki Haziran 2013 eylemleri ve sendikaların eylemlerdeki rolü

In June 2013, Turkey and Brazil witnessed simultaneous mass protests that targeted the policies of the governing parties, the AKP and PT, respectively. Although both protests grew to millions to encompass people from different social classes and their variety of demands, the labor unions were marked by their absence. This thesis focuses on the labor unions' role in the mass protests of June 2013 in Turkey and Brazil and explores the underlying reasons for their non-participation, marginal roles and in some cases condemnation vis-à-vis the protests. It argues that the attitude of the labor unions in the June demonstrations reflected (i) the success in which governments managed to integrate most labor unions into status-quo through corporatism and (ii) the lack of power of other labor unions that would challenge the status-quo. Finally, this thesis discusses state-labor union relations from a comparative perspective to make a broader point on emerging market economies.