Manisa

Kolin İnşaat, the energy firm that felled around 6,000 olive trees in the Aegean village of Yırca last week for the construction of a planned coal power plant, laid off some 100 personnel after a Council of State decision halted the project.

Although its size might not have befit its name, the ancient city of Metropolis had all the architectural trappings of a key city.

One engineer and two technicians died in a labor accident in the western province of Manisa on June 26.

The accident occurred during maintenance work at a waste water pumping facility in a leather factory complex inside an industrial zone.

An explosion at a coal mine in western Turkey has left at least 201 workers dead.

Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz told reporters early Wednesday that a total of 787 people had been inside the mine at Soma in Manisa province at the time of the explosion, according to reports of the BBC.