İSİG Assembly: 145 Workers Killed in Occupational Homicides in September

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The Occupational Health and Safety (İSİG) Assembly has released the occupational homicide report for September.

Accordingly, at least 145 workers were killed in occupational homicides in September. Number of the killed workers in the first nine months of the year reached 1320.

Here are figures from the report:

• 122 of 145 workers were paid laborers (workers and civil servants) and 23 of them were self-employed (farmers and artisans).
• 11 of the killed workers were female and 134 were male.
• Six child workers were killed, with four of them being 14 years old or younger.
• Nine immigrant/refugee workers were killed. Four of them were from Afghanistan, two were from Uzbekistan, one was from Azerbaijan, one was from Russia and one was from Ukraine. In the first nine months of the year, 91 immigrant/ refugee workers were killed.
• The most number of killings occurred in the sectors of agriculture, municipality/general work, trading/office, transportation, metal, ship/shipyard, food, energy, mining and accomodation/entertainment.
• Most common causes for killings are traffic/shuttle accident, falling from a height, crushing, heart attack, electric shock, suicide and violence.
• 42 of the killed workers were 51 years old or older.
• Occupational homicides occurred in 48 cities in September. The cities where most cases happened were İstanbul (17), İzmir (8), Bursa (7), Muğla (7).
• Names of the 145 killed workers: Davut Ulaş Kayacan, İzzettin Boy, Osman Nuri Bayram, Mehmet Topal, Mustafa Şen, Mehmet Çimen, Taner Ünlü, Adem Alibaş, İsmail Yiğit, Orhan Alp, Halaf (Halef) Sağır, Osman Çevik, Rufat Fahradov, Aydın Ber(e)k, Fatma Çetinavcı, Turan Kayan, Murat Şevki Eryılmaz, Emine Neslihan Ölmez, Serap Yılhan, Deniz Özbek, Özlem Balcı, Rıfat Altunel, Hanım Akbulak Elyagut, İbrahim Zorlu, Eyüp Sultan Öztürk, Yakup Ağralı, Saffet Küçükyılmaz, Bilal Özbek, Yalçın Tatlıdil, Fatih Dömeke, Abdurrahman Bayır, Ahmet Elkomak, Mustafa Ateş, Mehmet Göğebakan, Ersan Damar, Naci Yıldız, Hasan Saksı, Şahin Berkel, Nurettin Dilmen, Abdullah Kaya, Yunus Nas, Haydar Çemrek, Baykal Gündoğdu, Nizamettin Tosun, Şerif Arslan, Mehmet Fındık, Mustafa D., Cihan Yaşar, Muhammet Emin Epçim, Memet Cansız, Nihat Öztürk, Mehmet Solmaz, Kenan Karakuş, F.A., Adem Türk, Zekai Karataş, Nurettin Sapma, Niyazi Çakır, Necati Akbaş, Yaşar Sülük, Ahmet Yalçın, Recep Kılıç, Orhan İnal, Ahmet Yalçın, Hamdi Tunçel, Ufuk Topsakal, Enver Kurt, Sedat Yurtsever, Recep Tunaboylu, Ayhan Metin, Mustafa Türkmen, Fuat Korkmazgil, Birol Özdemir, Berkant Ercan Yülek, Halil Keleş, Radolov Dmytro, Davut Dikilitaş, Timofey Zinakov, Emre Bakırlı, Özcan Yaşar, Yılmaz Sağın, Ferhat Yılmaz, Hasan Uraslı, Hamza Irk, Ozodkhon Abdıkarımova, Kudret İdemci, Serkan Çağlayan, Ferhat Uçar, Şerif İsyıl, Ramazan Ray, Mehmet Emin Şavur, Nadira Kadirova, Mustafa Uslu, Erdal Yılmaz, Şahin Çöker, Fikret Mutlu, Eren Bursa, Ahmet Altıparmak, Ali Suna, Ahmet Karaçam, Murat Akkoyunlu, Hayrettin Türköz, Kerem Tuzcuoğlu, Ramazan Tekbaş, Hüseyin Şimşek, Yasin Mol, Mehmet Güzle, Eray Yazgan, Emincan Seyis, Remezan Eriş, Cuma Emre, Bismili Macidi, Nihat Uyar, Mustafa Öncül, Emin Özer, Efrahim Balta, Mustafa Alaca, Fetih Tekyıldız, Abdullah Yılmaz, Hakan Yeşiltaş, Ufuk Anık, Bahattin Güner, İsmail Özgün, Yusuf Ülger, Abdullah Abdi, Aynur Üstün, Ahmet Usta, Dursun Üreğen, Mehmet Duran, Yakup Kara, Harun Bayrak, Aycan Kara, Selahattin Dayı, Nihat Çakır, Engin Sezgin, Necati Çiftçi, Hacire Aslan, Kasım Gümüş, Mehmet Mustafa Aslan, Hüsnü Ören, Şükrü Bilen, Ramazan Dokunan, Ali Temel. Name of the one worker could not be identified. (RT/VK)