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The Two Sons of a Miner Participating in the Resistance Narrowly Escaped the Cave-in: ‘If I Hadn’t Been Able to Reach Him, I Would Have Gotten up and left.’

Summary by Cumhuriyet
Bahattin Akkayaoğlu, a mine worker who has been protesting in front of the Ministry in Ankara for 13 days over unpaid wages from Doruk Mining, lost his two sons in a mine collapse at the Çayırhan Mine. Akkayaoğlu explained that the collapse occurred as one son was about to leave the mine and the other had just entered, adding, "If I hadn't been able to reach my children, I would have left."

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Bahattin Akkayaoğlu, a mine worker who has been protesting in front of the Ministry in Ankara for 13 days over unpaid wages from Doruk Mining, lost his two sons in a mine collapse at the Çayırhan Mine. Akkayaoğlu explained that the collapse occurred as one son was about to leave the mine and the other had just entered, adding, "If I hadn't been able to reach my children, I would have left."

·Istanbul, Türkiye
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Cumhuriyet broke the news in Istanbul, Türkiye on Saturday, August 22, 2026.
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