Soma mine disaster

A man, who survived last year?s Soma mine disaster that claimed 301 miners? lives through a shift-swap, was killed by an electric current while working as a contractual worker for the Bayrakl? District Municipality in the Aegean province of ?zmir.

Two members of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) from Turkey's mining disaster-struck Aegean province of Manisa have told mine owners, who work with a royalty system, to bring miners to the AKP election rally in Manisa on May 24, according to a Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) deputy.

May 13 marked the first anniversary of Turkey?s deadliest ever mining accident, with the families of the victims flocking to the graves of their loved ones in the Soma district of Manisa province amid commemoration ceremonies. 

Turkey commemorates the first anniversary of Soma mining disaster, the deadliest in the country's history, which claimed the lives of 301 miners.

The district of Soma will commemorate the first anniversary of Turkey's deadliest mining accident, in which 301 miners were killed, in a modest way on May 13. 

The Manisa Metropolitan Municipality together with the district governorship and the Maden-?? Union will organize separate commemoration events in the Aegean district of Soma. 

Suspects in the case of Turkey's worst ever mine disaster in the Aegean town of Soma, which claimed the lives of 301 miners in May 2014, have pointed the finger at one engineer who died in the accident, as the trial continues under tight security measures due to the furious relatives of victims.

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The chief executive of the mine where 301 miners died in 2014 in Turkey?s deadliest industrial accident on April 16 insisted he was not a murderer and said he was still struggling to understand the causes of the tragedy.

Eight former managers from the mine where Turkey's worst industrial disaster occurred in May 2014 appeared in court April 15 on murder charges, with prosecutors demanding they spend the rest of their lives in jail.

Turkey?s Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) has put real estate properties owned by Soma Holding chairman Alp Gürkan up for sale after he was charged w?th fraud for helping businessman Korkmaz Yi?it hide assets from the TMSF in the wake of the Soma mining disaster.