ABSTRACT
Introduction On May 13, 2014 Turkey was shaken by a disaster that claimed hundreds of lives in Soma district of Manisa province (528km southwest of Istanbul). An accident in a coalmine in the Eynez region of Soma trapped hundreds of miners 1,300 feet below the surface. The incident was breaking news not only in Turkey, but also across the world. Four days after the accident, the Minister of Energy Taner Yildiz ocially announced 301 miners were killed.
