Teachers' Union Eğitim Sen staged a demonstration in the western province of İzmir to protest the police attack on the demo the union organized in the capital Ankara on November 23.

Hundreds of people joined the demo which began with a march from Konak Sümerbank to the provincial directorate for national education where demonstrators left a black wreath and staged sit-in.

In a statement after the sit-in, KESK (Confederation of Public Workers' Unions) İzmir Platform Spokesperson Ramiz Sağlam criticized the brutal police attack against teachers who took to the streets on Teachers' Day to voice their demands for their rights and future.

DISK (Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions of Turkey) President Kani Beko and TMMOB (Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects) İzmir Board of Coordination Representative Ferdan Çiftçi also joined the demonstration to salute the resistance of teachers.

The Ankara protest on Teachers' Day had been organized  against the government’s policies on education on the occasion of Teachers’ Day. Slogans against the privatization of education were the most chanted.

Teachers came to Ankara from all over Turkey, and met at Tandoğan Square but the police did not allow the crowd to pursue their march past Kızılay Square, and begun throwing tear gas canisers and water cannons. A woman teacher sustained cerebral trauma when a gas canister fired by the police into the crowd hit her in the head.