Dispatches: Justice for Turkish Mine Disaster Victims
May 13, 2015
Emma Sinclair-Webb
One year after the biggest mining disaster in Turkey’s history, on May 13, 2014, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government is blocking the path to full justice for the victims and their families. The trial of managers and senior personnel of the Soma Coal Mining Company over the deaths of 301 miners and injury of countless others in the fire at the Eynez mine in Soma began on April 13, and will resume again in mid-June.
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