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Explosion kills 19 miners in Turkey

Burak — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:04:13 +0000

A methane gas explosion at a coal mine in western Turkey killed 19 miners, federal officials said Friday.

Three survivors were pulled from the mine after the explosion Thursday in the town of Mustafakemalpasa, in the western province of Bursa.

Rescuers tried to reach the others, but they were forced to remove debris by hand because the area was too soft to withstand heavy machinery, said Labor and Social Security Minister Omer Dincer.

The mine had operated since 1983 without such an accident, he added.

In Turkey, fertile ground for creationism

Burak — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:47:48 +0000

Sema Ergezen teaches biology to Turkish students interested in teaching science themselves, and she has long struggled with her students’ ignorance of, and sometimes hostility to, the notion of evolution.

But she was taken aback when several of her Marmara University students recently accused her of being an atheist, or worse, for teaching anything but the doctrine that God created the Earth and everything on it.

“They said I was a liar if I called myself a Muslim because I also accepted evolution,” she said.

Nine Turkish girls rescued from fake reality television show

Burak — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:54:27 +0000

Turkish police have rescued nine women from an Istanbul villa where they were allegedly held captive after applying for a reality show, but instead found they were being told to wear bikinis and fight each other for the benefit of an internet audience.

A man has been arrested after footage of the women was allegedly sold on the internet.

“We thought our daughter could have the chance of becoming famous if she took part in the contest,” Remziye, the mother of one of the women, told the newspaper Haberturk. “But they have fooled us all.”

The military police, who conducted the raid, said that they had been held against their will for two month