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. Istanbul hosts KADEM’s 6th int’l summit on AI, women

  2. Ankara, Athens committed to resolving problems, improving ties

  3. Health Ministry to reconduct all inspections on newborn units

  4. UN probe: 70 pct of Gaza victims women, children

  5. Turkish Cyprus rebukes EU’s Borrell over criticism of Turkic summit participation
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