141 Workers Killed on the Job in June

According to a report by Worker Health and Work Security Assembly, at least 141 workers were reported killed on the job in June 2014. 

The death toll in 2014 also climbed to 951.

Worker deaths according to sectors

Construction (37) with almost half of the cases due to falls, agriculture (29), transport (16) and mining (10). 

Worker deaths according to cities

İstanbul (13), Bursa (9), Kahramanmaraş (9), Kocaeli (6),  5’er ölüm Edirne (5), Manisa (5), Samsun (5), Şırnak (5), Adıyaman (4), Ankara (4), Balıkesir (4), Karabük (4), Konya (4), Adana (3), Antalya (3), Isparta (3), Karaman (3), Kayseri (3), Zonguldak (3), Afghanistan (3), Aydın (2), Batman (2), Çorum (2), İzmir (2), Mardin (2), Muğla (2), Sakarya (2), Siirt (2), Şanlıurfa (2), Trabzon (2), Bilecik (1), Bingöl (1), Bolu (1), Burdur (1), Çanakkale (1), Çankırı (1), Diyarbakır (1), Elazığ (1), Erzincan (1), Erzurum (1), Gaziantep (1), Hatay (1), Kırklareli (1), Kütahya (1), Malatya (1), Muş (1), Rize (1), Sinop (1), Tekirdağ (1), Tunceli (1), Yalova (1), Yozgat (1) and Iran (1). 

Mines in Şırnak

The report emphasized on the workplace murders in mines in Şırnak. 

“On the outskirts of Cudi Mountain, 3,500 miners are working without an insurance, just to avoid starving. Almost all these workers at these death wells are those whose villages were forced to empty in the 1990s. The dead body of Musa Seven, a worker with 8 children, has been retrieved in a bucket. Democracy forces must take action to avoid these tragedies from happening again,” the report cited. 

List of deceased workers 

Ferhan Yazar, Gültekin Gencer, İbrahim Yılmaz, Hacı Mehmet Çiftçi, Şenol Nur, Hüseyin Şirin, Murat Hamarat, Murat Özer, İsmet Tülübaş, Ahmet Kozan, Aşkın Karataş, Mustafa Konanç, İhsan Tunç, Enver Balaban, Erkan Evren, Cemal Yorulmaz, Satılmış Kırca, Nurettin Aktaş, Safiye Peşmen, Mehmet Sıddık Tecirman, Sezai Atış, Barış Çiftçi, Ayşe Zehir, Ahmet Şengül, Taner Yaman, Hanife Coşkun, Şaban Akkoç, Archıl Gegıdze, Ali Özdemir, Ömer Özgün, Erdem Çelikmen, Süleyman Akay, Mustafa Yirik, Musa Seven, A.A., Ahmet Baysal, Emin Baysal, Selahattin Uçar, İbrahim Sağnak, Ali Çankay, Ömer Faruk Genç, Zekeriya Akkabak, Ayhan Arı, Muhammet Nur Belen, Halil İbrahim Dursun, Satılmış Mercan, Fahrettin Fırat, Özlem Yavuz, Rıdvan Sevinç, Ayhan Çetinkaya, Ali Osman Aksu, Murat Kendirli, Şehmuz Günel, Celalettin Özdemir, Ahmet Küçük, Hasan Demir, Fatih Kara, İbrahim Zabin, İsa Temizel, Mahmut Yılmaz, Mustafa Nallı, Muharrem Cıvak, Duray Oruç, Mehmet Ali Mestan, Mehmet Vapur, Hüsnü Akboğan, Ali Yılmaz, Adnan Karlıdağ, Mehmet Emin Çalhan, Sercan Ergün, Turan Çiçek, İsa Göktürk, Yusuf Öztürk, Mustafa ., Mehmet Yavaş, Mahmut Yücel, Selahaddin Uysal, Turan Kaya, İbrahim Öztürk, Naci Ayvalıoğlu, Baki Güneş, Lazgin Kezer, Aydın Erten, Şahin Akkoyun, Hasan Ateş, Murat Arkaya, Zülfü Yıldırım, Yılmaz Öztürk, Nurettin Koza, Hayrettin Kara, Mehmet Kormalı, Hasan Pala, Uğur Avcu, Musa Yiğit, Mehmet Ali Yaman, Fuat Taş, Ümit İnal, Halil Gül, Şükrü Ergin, Orhan Gönültaş, Zeki Şen, Ahmet Cömert, Ali Kıllı, Hıdır Teber, Mahmut Cem Kırılmaz, Ramazan Turan, Mustafa Açıkgöz, H.Ş., Aşır Ahmet, Ferdi Aydın, Doğan Gür, Mesut Altınay, Saadettin Çimen, Hüseyin Şen, Necati Uçtu, Hacı Arap Aktaş, Ahmet Keleşoğlu, Gürkan Kazel, Battal Ersoy, Bülent Han, Osman Okyay, Abdalla Hassan Abdalla Abdelbaky, Burak Yıldırmış, Şahabeddin Ökmen, Arzu Ayyıldız, Gizem Gürşah Doğa, Mesut Turan, Fatih Selim Aladağ, Ali Uğur Şen, Ahmet Maraşlı, Hacı Canan Coşkun, Mikdat Ataş, Hüseyin İmrag, İsmail Kuyzu, Ömer Kesim, Ahmet Çıldır, Mahmut Uzun, Mehmet Dinç, Samet Hasırcı and two unidentified. (NV/BM)

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