Efkan Kurt

Court jails three over 2014 Soma disaster

Published by Hurriyet on Wed, 06/16/2021 - 14:32

A court has handed out long prison sentences to an executive of a company and two engineers over a 2014 mining disaster that killed 301 people in the Soma district of the western province of Manisa.

The Akhisar Heavy Penal Court on June 16 sentenced Can Gürkan, the chairman of the executive board of the mining company Soma Kömürleri, to 20 years in prison.