Disaster unfolded before everyone’s eyes: HABAŞ factory became a workers’ graveyard

Seventeen workers were killed and 13 workers, two of them seriously, were injured in an explosion at the HABAŞ Iron and Steel Factory in Aliağa, Izmir. While three workplace killings in three weeks at the plant paved the way for disaster, the government’s first action was to detain workers who wanted to make a statement outside the hospital.