120 Killed On the Job in July

According to a report released by Worker Health and Work Security Assembly, at least 120 workers were killed from work-related injuries in July

Among these, 8 were listed as children and 7 as women. 

The distribution of deceased workers according to sectors were construction (41), agriculture (22), steel (22) and transportation (10).

* Deceased child workers have been listed as Ökkeş Gögebakan (10), Sabahattin Donat (12), Yakup Kartal (14), Salih Dikici (14), Nezir Akgül (15), Ferdi Çakır (16), Süleyman Kasar (16) and Hüseyin Ceylan (17).

*  The distribution of deceased workers according to cities were as follows: Istanbul (18), Izmir (9), Antalya (5), Aydin (5), Bursa (5), Konya (5), Mersin (5), Samsun (5). 

* 36 workers have died due to lack of precautions during transport to work, the report cited. However, it continued, officials recorded these deaths as traffic accident casualties. 

* 3 workers have committed suicide for the following reasons: Mehmet Sadık Güneş (education sector worker whose assignment have yet to be made), Uğur Nezir (a BMC worker who hasn’t been paid for 10 months and whose rights struggle yielded no results) and Erol B. (a senior policeman with 13 years of experience who were unable to pay his credit card bills).  

According to Worker Health and Work Security Assembly, at least 848 workers were killed on the job in 2012. 

Worker casualties in July

Feyza Nur Çelik, Ender Yıldırım, Eşe Acar, Birsen Yumurtacı, Şükrü Kahraman, İlyas Turan, Kayhan Çiçekoğlu, Enis Ak, Ferdi Çakır, Erdem Akyıl, İsmail Günay, Yakup Kartal, Nezir Akgül, İsmet İşleyen, Sadık Taşdöven, Bekir Şahin, Ercan Devecioğlu, Ümit Köse, Hüsniye Kılık, Mehmet Hepkaya, Süleyman Kasar, Ruhi Olur, Saadet Başkan, Hasan Kuluçlu, Süleyman Gülşen, Telat Öney, Sabri Salman, Hakan Şaşmaz, Yakup Irmak, Rıza Şen, Mehmet Sadık Güneş, Serkan Ergül, Celal Karaduman, Metin Beyazgül, Sabahattin Donat, Ferhat Öztürk, Seyfullah Balcı, Yusuf Öztürk, Erol Yıldırım, Hüseyin Ceylan, Resul Aydın, Dursun Karabulut, Uğur Nezir, Ökkeş Gögebakan, Mehmet Canka, Murat Çaylan, Hasan Aslan, Kemal Akyüz, Osman Özgen, Efgan Aşut, Mustafa Balcı, Zafer Dal, Çetin Filiz, Halil Doğan, Sercan Ünver, Mehmet Karasu, Kenan Toy, İlhami Yılmaz, Zafer Çelik, Sadullah Çevik, Salih Dikici, İsmail Tuna, Mustafa Güner, S.Ş., Mustafa Kurban, Bülent Aslan, Tarık Duru, Murat Karabaş, Hacı Kerim Işık, Sergen Karaman, Önder Kavaklı, Sabri Kuran, İsmail Yavuz, Kazım Saraç, Cemal Yılmaz, Musa Çevik, Ülkü Kayalı, Abdullah Erdem, Muharrem Duran , Veli Erdoğan, Can Erdoğan, Akan Şimşek, Çetin Aksoy, Necmi Kızıl, Oğuz Gede, Mehmet Şahintürk, Cumhur Kurt, Sefer Taşçı, Emin Teker, Süleyman Akdoğan, Sabri Ayhan, Veysi Akyüz, Vedat Avcı, Mustafa Taştan, Osman Aydın, Yaşar Öztürk, Tevfik Altıok, Ömer Kaymaz, Nuri Ildırar, Hüseyin Yeltekin, Ömer Boğa, Halil Altun, Gürsel Kılıvan, Hakan Bayrak, Zhanel Aygonova, Serhat Üner, Bayram Doğan, Selahattin Ergün, Erol B., Ergün Işık, Berkan Güneş, Ömer Arslan, Muhammed Cinemre, Erkan Koşak, Kadir Ercan, Veysel Turgut, Osman Sarı, Uğur Apaydın, Ahmet Sevinç, Hatice Top. (NV/BM)

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