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Kolin İnşaat, the energy firm that felled around 6,000 olive trees in the Aegean village of Yırca last week for the construction of a planned coal power plant, laid off some 100 personnel after a Council of State decision halted the project.

Kolin İnşaat, the energy firm that felled around 5,000 olive trees in the Aegean village of Yırca last week for the construction of a planned coal power plant, was aware of a Council of State decision halting the project two days before its announcement, a deputy from Turkey’s main opposition has claimed.

Turkey's Council of State suspended Nov. 7 a controversial project to build a coal plant in a western town, hours after thousands of trees in the area were rooted out by the energy firm amid locals' resistance.

Members of a labor union were detained after protesting against fatal labor accidents in front of the Labor and Social Security Ministry on Nov. 5.

Rescue workers find bodies of two Chinese miners after collapse in Turkey's Bartın. One miner is killed in a separate accident As days-long efforts were continuing to pull out the bodies of 18 coal miners trapped in Turkey’s Central Anatolian province of Karaman, two separate bad reports came from below the soil in the north. 

Rescue workers find bodies of two Chinese miners after collapse in Turkey's Bartın As efforts were continuing to pull out the bodies of 18 coal miners trapped in Turkey’s Central Anatolian province of Karaman, another bad news came from below the soil in Bartın, a Black Sea province.

Eight people died and one was injured in a traffic accident in the Aegean province of Manisa on Oct. 3.

A new coal mine, owned by the same firm that also owns the mine where 301 miners were killed in the Soma mine disaster in May, has started operations, according to Soma District Governor Mehmet Bahattin Atçı, in the western province of Manisa.

Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray will renew Turkish football’s greatest rivalry in the Turkish Super Cup game in the Aegean province of Manisa today.

The meeting between Super League winner Fenerbahçe and Turkish Cup titleholder Galatasaray will mark the official start of the new season in Turkish football, with the domestic league set to start this weekend.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has returned 10 illegally traded historical artifacts from Lydia, an Iron Age empire in western Turkey, to the Turkish mission in Washington.