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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

How this NGO is helping victims of Turkish mine disaster provide for their families - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

How this NGO is helping victims of Turkish mine disaster provide for their families

In May 2014, Turkey’s worst mining disaster killed 301 workers in a coal mine in the western town of Soma. Since then, time has largely effaced the tragedy from public memory, with the trial of those responsible moving at a snail’s pace. Left behind are hundreds of impoverished women and children, struggling to hold on to life. Hundreds of households have lost their breadwinners as many miners were left crippled and jobless, in addition to those who perished in the fire.

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