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Moment landslide buries goldmine in east Turkey leaving 9 missing

  • February 15, 2024



Moment landslide buries goldmine in east Turkey leaving 9 missing

Dramatic dashcam footage on Tuesday (February 13) showed vehicles reversing to escape a landslide near a gold mine in eastern Turkey, as mounds of earth slipped down a hill and across a road.

Rescue workers battled to find nine workers trapped under earth after a landslide at a gold mine in eastern Turkey on Wednesday (February 14), the interior minister said, while state media said four people were detained as an investigation got underway.

The landslide occurred on Tuesday afternoon in the Ilic district of Erzincan province. State broadcaster TRT Haber said the mine’s field manager was among the four people detained.

Gold miner SSR Mining on Tuesday suspended production at the mine after what it described as a “large slip on the heap leach pad”. The incident sparked a plunge of more than 50% in its Toronto-listed shares.

Reuters was able to verify the location of the video from the landscape and road layout of the area which matched satellite imagery and corroborating video from national TV channels which showed aftermath of the same scene.

Reuters was also able to confirm the date the video was filmed from the date and timestamp seen in the left-hand corner which matched a statement put out by Turkish Energy Ministry.

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  22. Heres something you may find interesting. 🙂

    The name of my country has nothing to do with the interesting and delicious bird ''turkey''……

    …..but the name of the bird does have a connection with the name of my country, let me explain. 🙂

    Name of my country has always been Türkiye, it's been known as such since around the 1200's.

    The name it self has a suffix, '' -iye '', that is Turk-iye, where the -iye suffix means 'land of/belonging to',

    just like the Latin suffix of '' -ia '', which exists in such country names like

    Austr-ia, Austral-ia, Latv-ia, Roman-ia etc etc again meaning 'land of/belonging to'.

    Many would remember the country Czechoslovak-ia which changed it's name to Czech Republic and a few years ago changed that to Czechia (that is Czech-ia).

    The Latin suffix -ia probably originates from Turkish -iye as Turkish is much older, ancient Turkish been over ten thousand years old.

    Spelled in different languages in different ways to phonetically resemble (to sound like) '' Türkiye ''

    we got various spellings like;

    Turquía (in Spanish),

    Turchia (in Italian),

    Turquie (in French)

    Turkei (in Germn) and

    Turkey (in English)

    all trying to resemble the pronounciation of ''Turk-ia'' thus Turkiye.

    Mind you this was way before the animal we currently know as 'turkey'' was found by the europeans when they explored the north americas. The bird was first sent to europe from north americas in the year 1519, so up until that point there was no bird named 'turkey'….

    …they came across the bird and thought it was a specie of the fowl/chicken they had been buying from the country of Turkiye at the time, so they named the bird ''Turkey Fowl'' meaning ''Turkish Chicken''…..

    ….just like how a dog breed is known as German Shepherd (because it's from Germany), American Bulldog, British Terrier, Greek Harehound etc etc.

    In time you don't get to call the Greek Harehound as simply as ''Greek''; or you don't call the British Terrier as ''British''; or the German Shepherd as ''German'', but in time the Turkish Fowl started to be called just ''Turkey'' and later ''turkey'', and has been going on for hundreds of years.

    Now in modern times, this is causing confusion, especially when we have people across the world unable to point to their own country on the map, this ''confusion over the naming'' needed to be corrected.

    So my country decided to rectify this confusion that has been going on for so long and corrected the name to Türkiye, which it always was. Basically we didn't change the name of our country, we changed the mistake made in the English language. : )

    So, there's some tid bit information for you to have a great day, if you read upto this point you have a great night too, ohh just have a wonderfull life. : )

    Best wishes. 😉

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