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An 82-year-old woman in the Aegean province of Manisa, who received a sentence to serve community service by guarding a mosque in her village after she got involved in a fight with her cane, was cleared of charges on Feb. 23 after seven months, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Do you remember the miner who survived the major mine accident in the western Turkish town of Soma in 2014, in which hundreds of other miners died? He was filmed asking the paramedic whether he should take off his muddy boots inside the ambulance.

Popular Turkish website Ek?i Sözlük (Sour Dictionary), a whimsical, user-run online encyclopedia, has deleted entries on the Turkish prime minister's aide who made headlines after kicking a mourner in the mine disaster-struck town of Soma, upon a court order. 

The Kolin Group energy company, which caused unrest in the Aegean locality of Y?rca when it cut down more than 6,000 olive trees for the construction of a coal power plant project, has said it has found a new place for a power plant ?devoid of olive trees.?

Dozens of suspects went on trial April 13 over modern Turkey's worst mining disaster that left 301 miners dead last year in the western town of Soma and tarnished the image of the government.

The Turkish Parliament has finally approved the International Labor Organization (ILO) convention on safety and health in mining, following debates after the recent Soma and Ermenek mining disasters.

The felling of around 6,000 olive trees near the Aegean for the construction of a coal power plant stems from the government’s unprincipled economic policies, which favor the interests of companies that support it over those of Turkish citizens, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader has argued.

Turkish authorities have detained seven people in connection with the deadly flooding in a coal mine in Central Anatolia, Energy Minister Taner Yıldız said.

Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yıldız has announced that the bodies of two of the 18 trapped miners in a flooded mine in Central Anatolia have been recovered 10 days after the disaster.

Labor Minister Faruk Çelik points the finger at 'the system' for repeated mining deaths while refusing to resign over the Ermenek disaster Labor Minister Faruk Çelik has admitted that there are systemic flaws in Turkey’s mining sector, as his government continues to be criticized for mistakes leading to yet another mine tragedy that left 18 workers missing in the Central Anatolian province