15 killed as Turkish truck carrying farms workers collides with tanker

A truck carrying agricultural workers collided with a milk tanker in the Aegean province of Manisa early on July 6, killing 15 passengers and wounding two.

The truck was carrying a group of mostly female agricultural workers to a vineyard to pick fresh grape leaves. Thirteen women who were heading to the grape field are among the dead.

The accident reportedly occurred after the milk tanker made an unsafe lane change. According to reports, the tanker's driver survived the accident. 

Ambulances and hearses were dispatched to the crash scene following the accident.

Many of those who died were related and from the same neighborhood. Among the dead were six people from the same family: truck driver Seydi Ayd?n and his wife, Ay?e Ayd?n, as well as other family members Kezban Uysal, Nesrin Ayd?n - who was three months' pregnant - Zeynep Uysal and Ummuhan Uysal.

Nurdane Kaya and her son Murat Kaya were also among the victims. The other victims included Fadime Orhan, Ümmü Demirkol, Zeynep Zengin, Azize Kars, Ay?e Ya?ar, Zekiye Çetin and Y?ld?z Öztürk.

Gülseren K?l?nç, who was the only person in the truck to survive the accident, and the tanker driver were both hospitalized at Akhisar State Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to Kamil Öz, the mayor of Manisa's Gölmarmara district.

Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy group leader Özgür Özel and CHP deputy leader Yakup Akkaya also headed to the province to monitor the incident. The two politicians were dispatched to Gölmarmara following instructions from CHP leader Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu. 

Recalling that accidents had frequently occurred in the area where the collision occurred, Öz said officials had failed to sufficiently widen the...