On 28th of October, in Ermenek district of Karaman Province, 18 workers trapped in the mine which is owned by Has Şekerler Mining, because of a flood. Enough is enough! The subcontracting system has to be ended immediately; all the mines have to be run by public institutions!

NEETs in Turkey: One third of 11.7 million young people in Turkey are either unemployed as they have not been able to find a job, or they are neither in school nor holding a job

“The reason these people died in the Soma mine disaster is because of the government’s neoliberal policies of subcontracting and making profits. The people really responsible are those in the government who allow privatisation”

An Article by Caleb Lauer of Equal Times tells continuing protests following the deaths of ten construction workers in Istanbul, an incident which has renewed focus on Turkey’s appalling worker safety record.

While the pain of massacre of 301 mineworkers in Soma is still fresh for us, now there is a new massacre in the middle of Istanbul. 10 workers were killed at #TorunlarCenter construction

Tahir Kara, Hıdır Ali Genç, İsmail Sarıtaş, Bilal Bal, Cengiz Tatoğlu, Murat Usta, Menderes Meşe, Vahdet Biçer, Ferdi Kara and Cengiz Bilgi were killed at a construction site in Istanbul.

What happened on 13th May in Soma was not an accident but a result of economic and political regulations. It has been more than a hundred days since reportedly 301 miners were killed. The silence of grief is only broken by the voice of workers and unions.

Progressive Union of Paper & Cellulose Industry Workers’ has managed to obtain new gains through determined industrial action of its 215 members at Kimberly Clark’s operation.

Dr. Tellioğlu argues that OHS is a human right and Occupational Diseases arise in most cases “because employers avoid costs to secure decent working conditions. In the current system, the OHS professionals are paid by the employers directly, and they are not organised in unions and have no guarantee against dismissal, just like most other employees in Turkey.

Research Institute of DİSK publish a report about Industrial Homicides in Turkey. According to report, in Turkey there are 80 work accidents occurring per hour. Annually 706,000 workers experience such accidents.