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11:02 04/6/2014		Lack of inspection kills 4 hundred 15 workers on the job in May Along with the workplace murder at mine in Soma, at least 414 workers lost their lives in May 2014. Among the dead workers, 10 of them were women, 405 of them were men and 2 of them were children. In the first five months of 2014, at least 810 workers lost their lives.
16:00 03/6/2014		One worker lost his life in coal mine collapse in Şırnak A landslide occured in Aftamasiya bound to Şırnak city center. Mineworker named İbrahim Sağnak (30) trapped in the wreckage and lost his life.
11:37 03/6/2014		5 workers pass away within 5 days Within five days, five workers died in three different construction projects in Istanbul including three workers in Kartal district by falling down from a scaffold.
12:22 02/6/2014		More than 12 thousands children work in Federal Kurdistan There are no up-to-date statistics regarding child labor in the Kurdistan Region. The latest numbers date back to 2010 and show that there were approximately 12,479 children working in the region.
14:08 30/5/2014		'We will be in streets to own hopes of massecred youngs' Releasing a statement to mark the anniversary of the Gezi resistance, the Confederation of Public Workers' Unions (KESK) said its members will be taking to the streets across the country on 31 May to call those responsible for what has been stolen from the people to account.
11:29 27/5/2014		TEPAV: 772 child workers employed in coal and lignite mines 85.5 percent of child workers employed in coal and lignite mines as of 2012 year-end are working off-the-record according to TEPAV study.
14:33 26/5/2014		Mineworkers march to union in Soma A group of around 300 protesters gathered in front of the local Ege Maden-İş building on May 26, demanding resignation of the union officials for failing to secure the rights of the workers both before and after the accident.
12:06 26/5/2014		'Soma is an organized massacre in which political ruling is the main responsible' Work Security Expert and KESK/ESM former General Head Kemal Bulut defined the disaster in Soma that claiming lives of 301 mineworkers as "an organized massacre in which the political ruling is responsible."
13:54 25/5/2014		Thousands of labourers go hand in hand to ask account of Soma Thousands of people in Istanbul began to march towards Kadıköy Quay Square with the placard reading "Soma is not accident, it's murdering. Subcontractor means death, ban it" for the rally being organized to ask the asscont of Soma massacre and with the demand of banning the system of subcontractor.
07:46 23/5/2014		'Turkey evades responsibility by not signing mining convention' The chairman of Dev Maden-Sen Görgün claimed that the statement of the labor “The mining laws in Turkey are advanced than ILO agreement” don't reflect the truth, and Turkey evaded its responsibilities by not signing the agreement.
13:13 22/5/2014		Mine workers to go to Ankara for their demands Workers who began a sit-down protest in front of the Soma courthouse after the mine disaster at Soma, are to send a five-person delegation to Ankara to convey their demands to Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yıldız.
12:42 22/5/2014		Employment Organization removes Soma Mining Co Job Ad İŞKUR declared that Soma Mining Co’s advertisement of 100 worker job slots had been posted before the mine killing and has been removed.
07:39 21/5/2014		'Lack of occupational safety hinders EU process' Bianet interviewed Prof. Dr Aktar who emphasized the importance of the unions in order to ensure occupational safety and remarked that the obstacles in unionization also hinder the EU membership process.
10:20 20/5/2014		Only 8 found respobsible for 301 lives The general manager of the company operating the Soma mine, Ramazan Doğru, and Soma Coal Mining Company CEO Can Gürkan were arrested as part of a probe into last week’s mining disaster that claimed the lives of at least 301 workers, raising the total number of arrests to 8.
15:53 19/5/2014		4,000 miner applications for 115 job slots The Turkish Pit Coal Corporation in Zonguldak opened 115 job slots and 4 thousand people applied.
14:31 19/5/2014		Mine owner's son in Courthouse Soma Holding CEO Alp Gürkan’s son Can Gürkan, who was arrested yesterday as part of the investigation into the Soma mine disaster, has been sent to court along with 5 others.
12:08 19/5/2014		'Supervised release' to actual responsible in Soma disaster Five responsibles of the company operating the Soma mine were arrested upon a court decision late May 18 as part of the ongoing probe into last week’s tragic disaster that claimed the lives of 301 workers.
11:45 18/5/2014		Death toll reaches 301 as mine rescue ends The number of the miners confirmed officially dead in the Soma mine disaster has reached 301.
16:42 16/5/2014		Soma protests in 5 centers People in Kurdish cities continue to protest against the murder of hundreds of miners in Soma mine disaster.
15:30 16/5/2014		Company admits: No refuge chamber in Soma mine The operator of the Soma mine has denied any negligence in the worst mining disaster in Turkey’s history, while admitting that a refuge chamber that could have saved lives had not yet been constructed. Nevertheless, Soma Holding head Ali Gürkan vowed to continue operating the mine after “shortcomings are addressed” in the wake of the May 13 disaster.