One More Worker Loses His Life in Construction of 3rd Airport

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The Laborers Health and Occupational Safety (İSİG) Assembly has announced that Seyithan Kaya, who has been working in the construction of the 3rd airport in İstanbul for almost six months, has lost his life by falling down the 15-meter-high elevator shaft.

Kaya was married and had two children. After the death of Kaya, the number of workers who have lost their lives in the construction of the airport has become 39 according to the İSİG.

Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Cahit Turhan previously announced that 30 workers have died at the construction of the 3rd airport in İstanbul since its construction began.

Parliamentary inquiry of Kemalbay returned

On October 26, İzmir MP of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Serpil Kemalbay submitted a parliamentary inquiry regarding the bad working conditions and occupational homicides in the construction of the 3rd airport.

The inquiry of Kemalbay has been returned to her on the stated ground that "the questions, whose only purpose is consultation, cannot be accepted by the Speaker's Office."

In her parliamentary inquiry, Kemalbay directed a series of questions to the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Security including:

* Has your ministry launched an investigation into the death of the worker, which was reported in the news on October 20, 2018?

* Has this occupational accident been reported to the Social Security Institution? If not, has an administrative fine been imposed?

* Is it true that the dead body of the worker remained in the well for days? What is his cause of death?

* In the wake of a statement by your Ministry regarding the death of only 27 workers, what measures have been taken before and after these deaths and what sanctions have been imposed on the employers? (EMK/SD)