After the severe mining accident in Turkey, the search for the culprit. According to reports, the police have arrested several suspects, including manager of the mine operator should also be.

In connection with the serious mining accident in Soma Turkish police have arrested 24 suspects. As the Turkish news agency Dogan and the NTV television consistently report are among those arrested several managers of the mine operator. Thus, they are suspected of negligence. Previously it was reported by 18 arrested .

In the worst mine disaster in the history of Turkey 301 people were killed five days ago . After recovery of the last two dead searching for other victims was set on Saturday .

Until recently, the government and the mine operator Soma Kömür Isletmeleri had claimed to have not violated safety regulations . Well , according to Dogan , among other things , the manager of the mine, Ramazan Dogru , as well as the manager Akin Celik were arrested. The prosecutor wanted to apply for a warrant for a total of five managers of the mine operator , NTV reported .

The accident had triggered violent protests in Turkey , which were partially terminated by force. The protesters accuse the mine operators and Erdogan’s Islamic- conservative government inadequate safety measures and negligence – and make them responsible for the tragedy. On Friday, the security forces had taken place in Soma with water cannons , tear gas and rubber bullets against more than 10,000 protesters.

Even after the end of the salvage operations on Saturday , police in Soma intensified their squad. The accident site was partially sealed off to prevent further anti-government protests. On several access roads checkpoints were erected hundreds policemen patrolled the streets. Dozens of protesters were set , including 15 victims’ lawyers . She was reportedly banned without giving reasons in a gymnasium.

Growing criticism of Erdogan’s Cologne  Germany election show

Meanwhile, multi criticism of a planned by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan event in Cologne next weekend. The integration of the Federal Government Commissioner, Aydan Özoguz (SPD), said the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, they think it’s unfortunate that Erdogan will hold a big event so shortly before the European elections in Germany.

Wolfgang Bosbach (CDU) called Erdogan to cancel his appearance: “It’s been hard to bear that Mr. Erdogan routed through the major event in Cologne, the Turkish campaign to Germany in the current situation, but he should take care of early to late matter. how it could come to the devastating mining accident in Turkey, “the chairman of the Interior Committee said in parliament the” Bild “newspaper.