2014: The year of labor disasters, police violence, environmental struggle and refugee flow

2014: The year of labor disasters, police violence, environmental struggle and refugee flow

ISTANBUL

2014 has been the year when the whole world witnessed the almost non-existent labor safety in Turkey at the expense of hundreds of workers' life after the country was hit by successive accidents, including the biggest mining disaster of its recent history in the Aegean coal capital of Soma.

LATEST NEWS

  1. Turkish forces ‘neutralize' 21 PKK terrorists

  2. Syrian authorities torch 1 million captagon pills

  3. Court jails hotel owner, architect in landmark earthquake trial

  4. İnönü remembered on 51st anniversary of his passing

  5. CHP to rally against minimum wage hike
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ECONOMY

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Galatasaray crowned winter champion in Süper Lig

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