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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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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