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Graffiti on a wall in Istanbul reads, “Would you go down the mine for 5 lira an hour? And if you couldn’t get out again? ‘Fate.’” In response to the Soma mine disaster, then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had referred to mine accidents as being in the nature of the job.

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