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With heavy rainfall lashing the northeastern province of Rize's Çayeli district, residents are struggling to strive through a series of challenges due to landslides and floodings, amid evacuations and road closures that are adding to their troubles.

The Dec. 30 accident that caused the death of six people when the crane that was intended to be raised in the construction of a hotel in the Aegean province of İzmir fell towards the building for an unknown reason happened because the necessary safety precautions were not taken, workers on the construction site have claimed.

Turkey's ruling party spokesman on May 16  strongly condemned police violence against a Turkish citizen in Germany's Frankfurt, describing it as a "racist attack".

"This is a racist and fascist attack. It has nothing to do with public order," Ömer Çelik, spokesman for the AKP, said on Twitter, sharing the video of the police using violence against the Turkish citizen.

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They inspire confidence; they help overcome difficulties. 

A Turkish prosecutor has demanded 18 years in prison for a private over the fatal shooting of 19-year-old Medeni Y?ld?r?m during a protest against the building of a new police post in Diyarbak?r's Lice district in June 2013.

A worker has died and five others have been injured in an explosion at a mining site in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri.

Yusuf Kayg?s?z, 38, died while Ahmet Çiftçi, Yasin Çiftçi, Kandemir Y?ld?r?m, Cezmi Toprak and Hac? Kayg?s?z were injured as they removed tower cranes at an unused chrome mine in Kayseri's P?narba?? district on Sept. 9, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

Female workers in the agriculture sector have been more exploited than male workers, as the former have been paid less and deprived, in general, of the rights to health insurance and social security, Chamber of Agricultural Engineers (ZMO) ?zmir department head Ferdan Çiftçi said on July 7.