Turkish miner who survived says company to blame

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

BY DESMOND BUTLER

SAVASTEPE, Turkey (AP) — Miner Erdal Bicak believes he knows why so many of his colleagues died in Turkey's worst mining disaster: company negligence.

And he knows one other thing — he's never going back down any mine again.

Bicak, 24, had just ended his shift Tuesday and was making his way to the surface when managers ordered him back underground because of a problem in the Soma coal mine in western Turkey.

"The company is guilty," Bicak told The Associated Press, adding that managers had machines that measure methane gas levels. "The new gas levels had gotten too high and they didn't tell us in time."

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People gather to commemorate the Soma mine accident victims and protest the government's labor policy in Kadikoy, Istanbul, Turkey, late Friday, May 16, 2014. A Turkish mining company defended its safety record Friday, four days after over 250 people died in an underground blaze at its coal mine in western Turkey. Writing on the miner hat reads: "Not accident, but murder.&quot AP Photo)

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

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[DavidDvorkin]

3. That's usually the case.

[tooeyeten]

4. In the group of protesters

This morning, a mother of a miner claimed along with other protestors that the Turkish government was too close with the mining company with lack of regulation. Boy does that sound familiar!