82 Workers Killed on the Job in January
According to a report released by Worker Health and Work Security Assembly, at least 82 workers were killed from work-related injuries in January 2014.
82 casualties included 5 children, 2 women and 7 immigrants.
The report revealed that most casualties occurred in construction (21), transportation (12), municipality (10) and forest (10) sectors.
They were 6, 13, 17 years old
5 children were killed on the job in January with 2 aged under 14 years old and 3 aged between 15 and 17.
Yücel Arı (6) was run over by a minivan as he and his brother were collecting paper waste to support their families in Bursa province.
İbrahim Bozkurt (13), an 8th grader, was collecting junk in order to support his family and finance his education in Cizre, Sirnak province. He drowned in a construction pool in the basement of a building.
Mehmet Öztürk (17), a shaphard, died of a pig attack in Islahiye Çınarlı village.
Serdar Özdemir (17), a coach steward, died of a traffic accident in Kızılcahamam, Ankara.
Osman Avcı (17), a steward at a gas station in Kulu, Konya province, was run over a car as he went out to help a chain accident.
The report also urged Labor and Social Security Ministry as well as Family and Social Policies Ministry to take measures against child labor, implement reforms to protect children and ban child labor.
According to a report released by Worker Health and Work Security Assembly, at least 1,2035 workers were killed from work-related injuries in 2013.
List of deceased workers
Erol Karaman, İsmail A., Ramazan Çimen, İzzet Duran, Süleyman Davut, Mehmet Öztürk, Hasan Kalkan, Mehmet Aslan, Cömert Yeşilırmak, İsmail Kaya, S.Ç., Ahmet Yiğit, Cevdet Kozluca, Bayram Şeker, Hüseyin Günenç, Selim Onbay, Nikolozi Janalitze, Leyani Tchıtashvıcı, Mamvka Gabelala, Ramını Tsomaıa, Gersamıa Malkhazı, Şahin Kozca, Bülent Yakut, Adem Taştekin, Huban Öztoprak, Kamuran Gümüş, Nedim Ekinci, Ramazan Birol, Recep Çavuşoğlu, Yavuz Akman, Nusret Ulugöl, Hasbi Üstündağ, İbrahim Avcı, Abdullah Güneş, Metin Güvercin, Mustafa Kışanak, Ahmet Altun, Osman Koç, Kemal T., Bülent Özsoy, Rahmi Öz, Ahmet Doğmuş, Emrah Öcalan, Serdal Aykut, Feridun Güneş, Nihat Akyüz, Mustafa Ilgaz, Engin Uğurlu, Figen Budak, Ahmet Şahin, Bestami Uzun, Serdar Özdemir, Hayrettin Yenilmez, Mehmet Tuçel Lima, Erdinç Sever, Ahmet Olgar, Fikret Böcek, Tahsin Ataseven, Ahmet Ataseven, Volkan Nuhoğlu, Harun Ömür, Vladimir Nikolov Petrov, Mehmet Marat, Harun Karaman, Pervil Çetin, Rasim Ala, Osman Avcı, Yusuf Cemal Bayır, İrfan Yay, Bayram Çiftçi, Hüseyin Burhan, Fayat Toy, Inna Zubakova, Musa Baydemir, Özcan Beler, Ali Ülkü Gül, İbrahim Bozkurt, Yücel Arı, Ali Koçan, Beyazıt Kaçkın, Ali Barış Çiğdem and Adem Erik. (NV/BM)