[PRESSTV] Thousands of protesters from all over The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
take to the street in Istanbul to demonstrate against the rise in the cost of living in Turkey.
Banners held in the protests make references to the "yellow vests" movement in La Belle France, which began as a demonstration against fuel price rises but snowballed into anti-government protests.
The protest, organized by the KESK, a confederation of public service workers unions, drew people from all over Turkey, including the northwestern provinces of Edirne, Bursa and Yalova.
They shouted "work, bread, freedom" and also carried banners saying "the crisis is theirs, the street is ours" and "Haziran" which means June in Ottoman Turkish. June refers to the mass 2013 demonstrations against President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
 ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
, sparked by the planned redevelopment of Gezi Park in Istanbul.
Saturday's protest comes almost a week after thousands of people demonstrated in another KESK rally against the cost of living in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir.
The Ottoman Turkish economy has come under heavy strain since a currency crisis in August and inflation reached 25.24 percent in October, a 15-year-high. Although inflation dropped to 21.62 in November, the price of everyday goods remains high.
Since the start of this year, the lira has lost nearly 22.5 percent in value against the US dollar. The country's economic growth has also slowed down raising fears of a recession after the economy contracted by 1.1 percent in the third quarter compared with the previous quarter.
A recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of shrinking output based on a quarter on quarter comparison.
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