Ermenek

A Byzantine-era stone tablet has been found during road construction in the Central Anatolian province of Karaman's Ermenek district. 

Surgical instruments and burial chambers unearthed during excavations in the ancient city of Philadelphia in the Central Anatolian province of Karaman's Gökçeseki village have boosted the idea that the ancient city was the health center of the Ta?eli region. 

Some 1,025 people were killed in workplace accidents in Turkey in just the first 10 months of 2015, according to data from the Social Security Institution (SGK). 

In 2014, in which 301 people were killed in the huge mine disaster in Soma, 1,497 people were killed at work, according to the data. In 2013, 1,315 people died in occupational incidents. 

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. 

Best known for coal, the ground beneath the southern Anatolian district of Ermenek is continuing to reveal priceless artifacts from humanity's prehistoric era, as well as more recent ancient civilizations.

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.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said safe rooms should be compulsory in mines and subcontracting must end in Turkey's mining sector, as he attended the Dec. 5 funerals of five miners who died after being trapped in a coal mine in the Central Anatolian town of Ermenek.

The operating manager of the coal mine where 18 miners were trapped due to flooded water has said they measured the content of the leaked water inside the mine by “tasting” it, while five people including the operating manager were arrested.