At Least 180 Workers Lose Their Lives in August

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Laborer Health and Occupational Safety Assembly (İSİG) has announced its figures of occupational homicides that took place in August and mentioned the ban imposed on the press briefing of Laborers’ Families Who Seek Justice.

According to the assembly’s statement, 75th Conscience and Justice Watch, which has been held at Galatasaray Square on first Sunday of every week since 2012 by Laborers’ Family Who Seek Justice, which consists of relatives of people who were died in occupational homicides.

At least 1,290 deaths in the last eight months

According to İSİG’s August report, at least 180 workers lost their lives in occupational homicides.

1,290 workers lost their lives in the first eight months of 2018 in Turkey. According to the figures that İSİG obtained from workers’ co-workers, families, occupational safety experts, occupational physician and unions, occupational homicides of this years are as follows:

January: 144

February: 128

March: 129

April: 189

May: 169

June: 151

July: 200

August: 180

Names of the workers who lost their lives in August

Kadir Eskimez, İbrahim Kuru, Faruk Sargın, Mehmet Yel, Resul Arkı, Ahmet Usta, Zübeyir Aslan, Abdulhadi A., Ali İbiz, İbrahim Kabil, Muzaffer Aksoy, Remzi Kalpak, Rauf Ahmedov, Yusuf Aydın, Selahattin Öylek, Ali Kılıç, Zekeriya Yalçın, Merza Mohammed, Barış Yamaçtepe, Ayçan İbrahim, Kefa İbrahim, Salih Şakır, Hasan Olgun, Makbule Ünlü, Erdal Kahya, Musa Taşkın Yavuz, İlknur Mehmetalioğlu, Ali Erdoğan, Kaan Can Büyükbörklü, Havva Peker, Muammer Üstün, Hatun Üstün, Kadir Üstün, Osman Kozacı, Ömer Faruk Güden, Ali Adalı, Ayşe Kork, Veli Türkan, Osman Özüağ, Emrah Sucu, Mehmet Kaya, Melihat Aytekin, Mustafa Zebil, İbrahim Çetin, Soner Yıldırım, Hüseyin Ballı, Allahverdi Çanga, Murat Çolpan, Umut Demiröz, Ahmet Salih, Recep Durmaz, Fadime Sarıoğlu, Salih Karadede, Kutluhan Kaan, Hasan Kaya, İbrahim Yıldız, Ahmet Şahin, Necmettin Ek, Şentürk Sevindik, Fatih Sarıbalık, Mehmet Biçer, Yusuf Yıldız, Durmuş Ali Çelik, Abdullah Eyüp Arslan, Bülent Kılıç, Yasin Yılmaz, Muzaffer Bilgili, Muammer Bayat, Memduh Manisalı, Bayram Ali Özel, Gürsel Bulut, Ömercan Çot, Mahmut Maruf, Hamza Nasır, Veli Dolu, Ercan Erikli, Hasan Bozgeyik, Zülfikar Bilge, Ahmet Şen, Mahmut Süngü, Hatice Bilgin, Bahtınur Bora, Halil Yücel, Mehmet Türkmen, Ali Erek, Mehmet Baber, İsmail Tokkazan, Fatih Aslan, Ersin Kan, Rasim Kılıç, Harun Yakup Günday, Muhammed Fatih Küçükyıldız, Bektaş Keçebaşoğlu, Taner Öner, Halit Çağlı, Zekeriya Dilaveroğlu, Yunus Temel, Ahmet Bahşi, Mehmet Özel, Nejdet Benek, Hüseyin Can Yazıcı, Şaban Çoban, Mustafa Ünal, Kemal Baş, Halil Çamur, Evren Erik, Yasin Zengin, Hasan Çağlayan, Ömer Şipar, Sabur Saburov, Mehmet Ezer, Serhat Can Taştan, Ahmet Sino, Orhan Çolak, Makhadin Abdov, Alican Eren, Sadık Bayrak, Seyitali Sert, Yasin Al Ali, Yusuf Çiğ, Mehmet Kabakçı, Jorakuly Rozyyev, Kadir Yılmaz, Mehmet Gündüzeli, Tahsin Bilmez, Aslan Atalay, Bekir Taştan, Ramazan Akbaş, Ramazan Şerif Çakır, Mehmet Ören, Ömer Öztürk, Abdulalim Sözen, F.D., Faik Polat, Mustafa Göyük, A.G., Fatih Boztepe, Çetin Çelik, Serkan Ay, Penay Candar, Ahmet Demir, Erhan Gözel, Özcan Tunalı, Ahmet Aktay, İshak Köse, İrfan Ayfer, Fethullah Vural, Mohammad Rahımıan, Abdulhakim Demir, Celal Demirhan, İnal Taş, Arif Aktaş, Abdulcelil Koşar, Mustafa Teker, Mehmet Değer, Yusuf İzzettin Kaya, Serkan Atalay, Gülizar Karaman, Mehmet Gök, Önal Kaya, Cihan Alagöz, Mesut Çakıcı, Ercan Tekçe, Sami Yılmaz, Zeynep Gündüz, Mehmet Mehdi Tenha, Aleyna Hatun Budanır, Sevgi Gökçe, Mehmet Ali Temel, Mehmet Kaya, Erol Erdoğmuş, Mustafa Ünal, Şenol Çiğdem, Murat Güner, Tolga Ünlüdalgıçer, Burak Aşikar, Hilmi Önal, Hüseyin Bozkurt, Ahmet Çolak and Z.K.

(AS/TK)