Abdullah Özbey

Turkey's Labor and Social Security Ministry has not allowed its supervisors to be investigated, a local court has ruled in the case into the deadly mine disaster in the Central Anatolian town of Ermenek, which killed 18 miners on Oct. 28, 2014. 

The first court hearing in the case into the Ermenek mine disaster, which left 18 miners dead late last year in the Central Anatolian province of Karaman, was finalized late on June 17 with an interim decision for the arrest of the operation manager of the mining company. 

The first court hearing in the case filed over the Ermenek mine disaster, which left 18 miners dead late last year in the Ermenek district of the Central Anatolian province of Karaman, was held on June 15 with 16 defendants. 

A lawsuit has been opened into accused of responsibility in a mine accident in the Central Anatolian province of Karaman's Ermenek district that left 18 workers dead last year.

The Ermenek Public Prosecutor's Office announced that a civil lawsuit had been launched at a high criminal court on charges of causing the death of more than one person through conscious negligence.

An official expert report on the deadly mine accident in the Ermenek town in the Central Anatolian province of Karaman has proven that the disaster was not natural, but caused by technical neglect, while also citing that miners were poorly trained.