An uncle who retired from the mine, a dead nephew, a brother who survived from the mine diasaster and waiting women. In Soma district,if dying in a mine is mourning, surviving is a bittersweet happiness.

The remaining workers do not want to go into Soma Mining Co’s mines following the workplace murder in the Soma mine. Workers are determined not to go under ground before an inspection of the mine.

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.

bianet interviewed Prof. Dr Aktar who emphasized the importance of the unions in order to ensure occupational safety and remarked that the obstacles in unionization also hinder the EU membership process.

Mineworker Sezai Yıldırım was working in one of Soma Mining Inc.’s other mines; “Everybody should hear these slavery conditions,” he says, and is enraged at those who say workplace disasters are “God’s will”.

None of the cases of mass worker deaths in Turkey in the past six years has been resolved. Below are the legal processes of Zonguldak Karadon and Kozlu, Afşin Elbistan Thermal Plant, Ostim İvedik and various cases.

Exactly a week after the workplace murder, the miners working in Soma Mining Inc.’s other plants will go back to work tomorrow. The workers are enraged, but they “have no other option.” Many have bank debts, and there is no other livelihood in the region.

The Turkish Pit Coal Corporation in Zonguldak opened 115 job slots and 4 thousand people applied.

After kicking a citizen in Soma disttict, Prime Minister's Aide Yusuf Yerkel said he “could not keep his calm due to provocation.” the Prime Minister’s consultant Yalçın Akdoğan remarked that Yerkel had protected himself and accused the media with recklessness.

A footage allegedly showed PM assaulting a mine worker and a young woman after entering a local supermarket to escape protest in disaster-stricken Soma district.

Turkey hasn’t signed the International Labor Organization’s No.176 “Security and Health in Mines Agreement” for 19 years. The agreement loads many responsibilities to the government and the employers.

Rıza Türmen, a former judge at ECHR and CHP deputy, evaluated Foreign Minister Davutoğlu’s statement regarding not paying the penalty to ECHR for Cyprus.

Dozens of concerts, events, games and festivals have been canceled across Turkey due to the workplace disaster in Soma district.

AKP votes rejected CHP Manisa deputy Özgür Özel’s proposal in order to investigate previous deaths in various mines in Soma to prevent "these cases again".

Following the workplace murder that killed at least 205 workers in Soma district, dozens of protests have emerged across Turkey's universities, streets and streets.

An explosion left at least 301 workers in a coal mine in Soma, in the western province of Manisa. The number of arrests within the investigation climbed to 8.

An explosion caused a blaze in a mine pit in the western district of Soma, Manisa, leaving around 200 to 300 workers trapped underground.

“Just like the decision of our arrest, the decision of our release is political. We will continue our independent media struggle until we get arrested again” said journalists recently released from the KCK Media Case.

Baran Tursun Foundation released a message on the occasion of Mother’s Day, saying that they could detect at least 155 individuals who were killed by the police between 2007 and 2014.

The European Court of Human Rights ordered Turkey to pay 90 million euros for its military intervention to Cyprus in 1974 and leaving the island divided ever since.