''Globalization and Asbestos: Aliağa Shipbreaking Where Workers Go to Die'' by Sinem KANKOTAN
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Transcript of ''Globalization and Asbestos: Aliağa Shipbreaking Where Workers Go to Die'' by Sinem KANKOTAN
10th Annual ADAO International Asbestos Awareness Conference
April 4-6, 2014 Washington, DCGlobalization and Asbestos:
Aliaga Shipbreaking Where Workers Go to Die
Sinem KANKOTAN
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Istanbul, 201110th ADAO AAC
Asbestos: ‘’Killer Dust’’
Asbestos is the generic commercial designation for a group of naturally occurring mineral silicate fibers of the serpentine and amphibole series.
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The Rates in Tuzköy were Hundreds of Times Higher Than Anywhere else in
Turkey.
‘’Even if a child born in the village leaves during childhood, he cannot run away from mesothelioma. It is a horrible disease, causing great pain.’’
Dr. Y. Izzettin Barış
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Turkey Asbestos Exposure Continues
• Consumer
• Occupational
• Environmental
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Environmental Asbestos and Erionite Related Diseases in Turkey
Regions where ARDs occur rarely
Regions where ARDs occur frequently
Regions where Erionite-related dis. occur freq.
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Reference: Barış, YI.,Thorax Journal
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TURKEY Facts
1. Turkey has not banned asbestos
2. Environmental asbestos exposure rate inTurkey is thousand times higher than world average.
3. More than 90% of construction shipbreaking workers are fighting with ARDs in their life in Aliaga
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‘’Death’’ is a central figure in Aliaga shipbreaking with or without asbestos
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If blood be the price of your all your wealth,
Great God, we’ve paid in full. Konopacki, 2010
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Economic Health of Businesses are Not More Valuable Than
The Right to Life
The Right to Health
The Right to Honor
of Workers
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e If you want
peace,
work for justice
Paul 6
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