Search efforts for the 18 (presumably dead) miners trapped inside a mine located in the central district of Ermenek yielded with the finding of 2 dead worker bodies last night.

Education ministry officials removed the seal on Ferzad Kemanger Elementary School - a Kurdish-teaching school in Diyarbakır province sealed for reasons associated with application deadlines.

Search efforts are underway for the 18 miners trapped inside a mine located in the central district of Ermenek, Karaman.

Male perpetrators killed 28 women and teenagers girls in October 2014. 21 percent of women were slain for seeking a divorce.

Two minors stood trial for the second hearing of a case for charges related to opening a banner on January 24 that said “We want the school record card of Berkin Elvan”.

The attorneys of 46 Kurdish media workers standing trial within Turkey’s KCK Media case submitted a request to a court for the review of the case by Constitutional Court. The request was admitted.

Influential cleric Fethullah Gülen sent a tweet message, giving the signal that he is likely to sue a former Zaman newspaper columnist for defamation.

A prosecutor launched an investigation against Milliyet newspaper reporter Kemal Göktaş for covering an article on a comparison between criminal charges of police officers suspected of torture and a relative man of torture victim woman who insulted those police officers.

Despite ECHR and higher court rulings canceling the 90-day suspension of Özgür Radyo’s broadcasting, Turkey’s RTÜK insisted, leaving the case unresolved for 14 years.

Yu Hongyan, People’s Republic of China Ambassador to Turkey, visited a Chinese worker who was wounded in a mine incident in the northern province of Bartın. Local Pusula newspaper featured the story of the only woman mine worker.

Writers Union of Turkey and Human Rights Association promoted a poetry book that was compiled from 59 poets’ works dedicated on the 500th gathering of Saturday Mothers/People.

A joint project initiated by KURDÎ-DER and TMMOB created a Kurdish technical term dictionary into cell phones.

According to a report by Worker Health and Occupational Security Assembly, at least 14,555 workers died on the job on the 12th anniversary of AKP’s rule in Turkey.

We must face up to the fact that an Islamic terror has now entered Turkey if we are to find a solution to the danger which is ISIS and the political and societal problems that give rise to it.

A Turkish court convicted 5 defendants including three from Coal Institute of Turkey to prison sentences from 5 to 10 years for charges related to the death of 30 miners in Zonguldak province in 2010.

According to Worker Health and Occupation Safety Assembly, 289 workers died due to traffic and shuttle service accident so far in 2014. The toll was 433 in 2013.

As efforts to save 18 miners who are still trapped in a mine located in the central district of Ermenek, the waiting of family members and coworkers continue.

Istanbul 85th Assize Court overturned another court ruling on the killing of Uğur Kurt by a policeman under the charges of “neglected murder”, advising a retrial under the charge of “possible premeditated murder”.

“This is not a disaster at any point. No excuses for the mining company,” said Energy Minister Taner Yıldız after the mining company in Ermenek district called the trapping of 18 workers as a “natural disaster”.

A bidding opened by Turkey’s Police Department have been completed on the purchase of 65 new TOMAs - an armored vehicle used to “intervene societal events”.