At Least 96 Refugee Workers Lost Their Lives in 2016

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A report by the Assembly of Worker Health and Occupational Safety (İSİG) has suggested that at least 96 workers lost their lives in 2016.

Deaths of refugee workers by years as follows:

At least 22 refugee workers in 2013,

At least 53 refugee workers in 2014,

At least 67 refugee workers in 2015,

At least 96 refugee workers in 2016 lost their lives.

“While the ratio of refugee worker deaths to all worker deaths was 2% in 2013, this figure increased to 3% in 2014, to 4% in 2015 and to 5% in 2016. Even only this figure has demonstrated that refugee labor is gradually increasing in our country. This situation has laid bare that the refugees is a new constituent in worker class and the union movement needs to develop a perspective in a way to organize the refugee workers”, the report said.

The report also stated that of 56 child workers who lost their lives last year, seven were refugees.

Names of the workers who lost their lives:

Ali Alzeri, Ahmed Elfaris, Mohammed Abdul Majeet, Malik Goseni, Bruce Gordon İrving, Abdül Kuddüs Nazar Mehmet, Marvan Quays Saad, Zıaurrahman Zıaozbe, Abdulkadir Aftel, Bessam El Musa, Yaser Hikmet, Kervin Martin Pinerua Urbina, Muhammet Kasım, Mukadder Ali, Kasen Abdullah, Yasir Seyfettin, Ahmet Şıho, Fakhrıdın Dalıev, Abdullah Obeyt, Mohamed Alahmad Alsalıh, Abdullah Kerimi, Abdulkadir Aziz, Ali Muhammed, Abdurrahman İbrahim, Mahdi Shemshad, Violeta Khanieva, Mustafa Arzhelge, Ala Ğayda, Fedir Suprenenko, A.A., Ahmed El Hasan, R.M., T.A., Muhammed Necip, Muhammed Mahmoud Eşsilim, Nazirjon Rozikov, Abdulminem Ömer, Diyap Abid, Ali İlhan, A.E., Kadir Muhammed Simavi, Muhammed el Aşab, Rami el Aşab, Basil Halit, Kusay (Hüseyin) el Salih, Abdullah Haydar el Bargas, Vefa Muhammed, Sıdıka Müslim, Yusuf Akdi, Ahmet Şimmo, Muhammed Muhtar Muhayri, Havle El Halef, Niyazi Murtazalioğlu Aliyev, Aleksandre Akopashvili, Husein Al Husein, Karim Özbek, Oleksiy Voytsov, Sergi Kravchenko, Vazha Abduladze, Ahmet Elahmed, Ziya ., Arkadı Tabagua, Ketevan Mgeladze, Abdullah Rahmadi, Hüseyin Elisa Yahya, İbrahim Shafi, Ahmad Fayaz Sultani, Vyacheslav Kuprin, Kamil Cerruh, Muhammed Sefa, Ali Sefa, Hong Woo Shin, Muhammed Abdulvehab, Yasin Hammud, Adnan Farhan, Samir Harun, Ali el Derviş, Ammar Hachalef, Hikmet Ali, Ferhat Ali, Cuma Muhammed Sadun, Ammar Koç, Mendul Meryem, Ala Zuru, Qyun Un, Predrag Marjanovic, Gulnora Tuxtayeva, Abdalla Salih, Muhammed Albades, Çağrı Derow, Serhiy Mykhadyuk, Dmıtrıj Baskırov and four unidentified workers. (YY/TK)