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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. 

Zengibar Castle, located among the remains of ancient Isaura in the Central Anatolian province of Konya, which is considered the Ephesus of the region, will soon open to tourism. 

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. 

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.

Amendments to labor safety laws and mining are set to be announced by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu on Nov. 12, following a recent wave of mine disasters across Turkey.

On Oct. 28, the flooding of a coal mine trapped 18 workers in the Ermenek district of the Central Anatolian province of Karaman, about 400 kilometers south of Ankara.

45 (percent): The vote President (then Prime Minister) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) won in Soma in the March 30 local elections.

301: The number of miners who died in Soma in the tragic accident in May (after which this columnist predicted that Mr. Erdoğan would perform better in Soma).