FILE PHOTO: Workers chat at the international terminal of the city's new airport under construction in Istanbul, Turkey August 8, 2018. REUTERS/Murad Sezer/File Photo
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police have detained hundreds of workers protesting over labour conditions at Istanbul's new airport, a giant project championed by President Tayyip Erdogan and due to open next month, a union leader said on Saturday.
The protest broke out after a shuttle bus accident on Friday in which 17 workers were injured, said Ozgur Karabulut, general manager of the Dev Yapi-Is union.
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