The year 2026 continues like a continuation of the usual war that continues with occupational murders. In the January report on occupational murders announced by the ISIG council, at least 146 workers lost their lives in occupational murders while working. Imagine a country where work competes with death.
In 2025, at least 2,105 workers lost their lives while working in Turkey. This figure is a “accident calendar” but each one is evidence of a carefully woven system of exploitation.
Every day, every hour, there is a system in which laborers are thrown to their deaths.
The data may seem cold, but every number is the mark of a dirty life. In the first half of 2025, 961 worker deaths were recorded; hundreds of lives lost in just six months.
In November alone, 216 workers died, the highest monthly death toll recorded up to that point.
Most of these deaths occurred in precarious, non-unionized conditions in construction, transportation and agriculture. Each and every one of them is not a clumsiness, but a policy choice.
Those who talk about economic growth ignore this picture. Yet even the distribution of deaths shows at what cost and at whose expense this growth has been achieved: mostly precarious, non-unionized workers without legal protections are dying.
And it should not be forgotten that in 2025 at least 94 child workers lost their lives in work murders. Among them were children under the age of 14; their deaths are not just numbers, but the collapse of a system on the working class.
This table “fate”The rhetoric that reduces workplace homicides to a single issue is a distortion of reality. Work murders are structural policies: non-unionized work, widespread subcontracting, lack of supervision, impunity. The state's control apparatus is either inadequate or reshaped according to the interests of capital.
Raporda 2025’in bir önceki yıla göre ölüm sayısında ciddi artış gösterdiği de ifade ediliyor — yaklaşık %11’lik bir yükseliş ile 2024’teki 1 897 işçi ölümü rakamının üzerine çıkıldı. Ekonomik kriz derinleştikçe iş cinayetlerinde ki artış dikkat çekicidir.
This increase is no coincidence.
This is the result of politics seeing job security as a cost factor, restricting the right to strike and organize, and encouraging precarious work.
And these murders are not only in the workplace. Workers' health has now infiltrated everyday life: long working hours, unhappy living conditions, lack of social protection... The death of a worker is not just a work accident. It is a reflection of the deadly nature of the system.
Those who are fighting for their seats today “statistical deviation” There are millions waiting for death on the streets, in the workshops, in the fields. Every number that goes unheard increases the pain of the laborers of this country.
In the face of this picture, we have only one thing to say:
Workers' lives cannot be left behind any economic target, any growth figures.
2025 is not just a year of numbers - it is a year of human lives that we must courageously rethink. It is a matter of underlining the fact that workers who lose their lives as a result of the war between labor and capital must also fight for their survival, and ways of organized struggle must be created.
In order to defend and ensure peace against this war, which is the most invisible of all wars in the world, it is in our own hands to build a new world order in which social production is planned, starting from our own country, not far away.