An explosion hit Turkey's Shah Deniz pipeline carrying natural gas from Azerbaijan early on Tuesday but there was no impact on supply because the flow was already suspended for maintenance, a senior Turkish energy official said. It was not immediately…
Testimony from company officials exposes negligence towards scandal in the Ermenek mine, Karaman province, where a water pipe explosion caused a collapse killing 18 miners in October 2014. Rescue teams had to work for 38 days to recover the bodies.…
On the first anniversary of Turkey's biggest mining disaster in which 301 people lost their lives, those who survived the disaster -- most of whom were laid off by the mining company in the aftermath of the disaster -- still…
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Forty-five managers and employees of a mine in the western Turkish town of Soma, went on trial on Monday accused of causing the deaths of 301 miners who perished in a fire last year in Turkey's…
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…
Prosecutors have demanded life imprisonment for eight executives of a coal mine company in Turkey operating a facility where 301 workers were killed in May in the country's worst mining accident, media reported on Wednesday. Prosecutors in the western city…
Rescue operations to save 18 workers who remain trapped in a flooded mine in central Turkey have not yet led to any tangible results, the Turkish energy minister said on Wednesday. "We can access two-thirds of the flooded mine, which…
