This video of today is called Report: 23 Trapped In Turkish Mine Collapse.
From daily The Morning Star in Britain today:
TURKEY: Eighteen coalminers are missing believed trapped underground in the southern town of Ermenek, in Karaman province, after a pit shaft collapsed yesterday.
Provincial Governor Murat Koca said that flooding inside the mine shaft might have caused the collapse.
From Associated Press:
ANKARA, Turkey — Oct 28, 2014, 12:13 PM ET
By SUZAN FRASER
Surging water trapped at least 18 workers Tuesday in a coal mine in Turkey, officials and reports said — an event likely to raise even more concerns about the nation’s poor workplace safety standards.
Initial reports said flooding inside the Has Sekerler mine near the town of Ermenek in Karaman province caused a cave-in, but subsequent reports workers were trapped by the water. Turkey’s emergency management agency, AFAD, said a broken pipe in the mine caused the flooding but did not elaborate.
Gov. Murat Koca said about 20 other workers escaped or were rescued from the mine, some 500 kilometers (300 miles) south of Ankara, close to Turkey’s Mediterranean coast
Sahin Uyar, an official at the privately owned coal mine, told private NTV television that the miners were stuck more than 300 meters (330 yards) underground. …
Uyar said the trapped workers’ chances of survival were slim unless they had managed to reach a safety gallery. …
In May, a fire inside a coal mine in the western town of Soma killed 301 miners in Turkey’s worst mining disaster. The fire exposed poor safety standards and superficial government inspections in many of the country’s mines.
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Turkish miner first to die in the New Year
With the New Year only four days old, Ahmet Arsian, 43 years old, died in an accident at a coal mine in the northwestern province of Edirne. He was killed when a chain connecting underground coal wagons, in which miners were travelling, snapped.
According to his brother, Yalcin, the accident was a result of negligence by the private coal company. Another miner who survived the accident confirms the claim of negligence. He told the press the chains should be replaced every six months but had not been changed for three years.
A recently-published trade union report states that 361 miners were killed in Turkey last year. This includes the country’s worst-ever industrial disaster, when in May, 301 miners died as a result of a fire which broke out in a mine owned by the Soma Coal company.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/01/16/wkrs-j16.html
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Turkish health workers attacked by police
In December 98 health workers at Maltepe University were dismissed after joining a union and demanding higher wages and shorter working hours. Since then the workers have been protesting outside the hospital. On Tuesday the health workers attempted to enter hospital but were brutally confronted by police who according to the DISK union left two of them injured, a further 34 were arrested.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/02/27/wrkr-f27.html
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