After the workplace murder that left 10 workers dead, the majority of workers at Torun Center construction site left the premisses. Another group of workers, along with their unions, protested the incident.

Regarding the workplace murder investigation, 2 lift specialists were detained by the police.

A work elevator carrying workers at Torun Center construction in Istanbul's Mecidiyeköy district fell from floor 32, leaving 10 workers dead.

While some of them drowned in the pond where they wanted to cool down, others were perished by slamming into lamp posts which were far way taller than them.

In August, at least 158 workers died. 11 out of them were women, 10 were immigrants, and 10 were child workers.

Having been squeezed between the wagon and a pole, worker Metin Keskin lost his life in Soma İmbat Mine.

Occupational Health and Safety Council announced the data on workers who died in mines in last 20 months.

Rescue teams have reached 9 miners alive who were were rapped inside a mine for 13.5 hours in the northern province of Zonguldak.

Following the Council of Ministers’ decision to postpone the Şişecam company strike and the State Council’s denial of their application, workers staged a walk to the conglomerate headquarters.

Osman Ceyhan, heavy construction operator, lost his life after the bulldozer fell down in the pond during the landfilling efforts of Istanbul’s 3rd airport construction.

According to Faruk Çelik, Turkey’s Minister of Labor and Social Security, only three child workers aged between 15 and 17 lost their lives in 2012. No data for 2013 is available. With respect to Istanbul Work Heath and Security Assembly, 34 child workers lost their lives in 2012 and so did 59 child workers in 2013.

At least 141 workers lost their lives according to Worker Health and Work Security Assembly. The death toll in 2014 climbed to 951.

Miners affiliated with three different mining zones under Soma Mining Co. have launched a protest, saying that the company didn’t pay their wages.

Turkey’s Saving Deposit Insurance Fund issued an injunction order on the assets of Alp Gurkan and Korkmaz Yiğit from Soma Mining Co. for “qualitative fraud” allegations.

At least 3 workers died in a coal mine in the sourtheastern province of Şırnak due to a subsidence.

Along with the workplace murder at mine in Soma, at least 414 workers lost their lives in May 2014. Among the dead workers, 10 of them were women, 404 of them were men and 2 of them were children. In the first five months of 2014, at least 810 workers lost their lives.

Within five days, five workers died in three different construction projects in Istanbul including three workers in Kartal district by falling down from a scaffold.

85.5 percent of child workers employed in coal and lignite mines as of 2012 year-end are working off-the-record according to TEPAV study.

İŞKUR declared that Soma Mining Co’s advertisement of 100 worker job slots had been posted before the mine killing and has been removed today.

The Soma Massacre reveals the mutually constitutive link between the urban transformation of Istanbul under AKP municipal and national governance and the privatized coal mining industries in Western Anatolia.