A total of 1,361 miners at a coal mine in western Turkey’s Soma district will have their employment contracts terminated next month after the state-owned mine was transferred to a private company, Turkish media reported on Wednesday. The layoffs concern workers at the Işıklar coal mine in Soma, a district in Manisa province known for Turkey’s worst mining disaster, in which 301 miners were killed in 2014. The mine is owned by the Turkish Coal En…
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Following the privatization of the Soma Işıklar Mine, owned by TKİ (Turkish Coal Enterprises), the operating company notified the workers of their termination. Approximately 2,000 mine workers were left unemployed.