AKP government under fire over coal mine tragedy
Was the mine disaster in Turkey, which has claimed at least 283 lives, the result of flawed policies and negligent acts, or an inevitable accident?
Turkey is mourning the terrible disaster at a coal mine in the western mining town of Soma, where the death toll is approaching 300 amid fears it could eventually exceed 500. A three-day period of national mourning has been declared.
Furious protests greeted Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan when he visited Soma on May 14, with the anger spilling over across the country as dead bodies keep emerging from the mine.
