Word: ishak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Incirharmani's safety equipment was rendered useless by the speed of the disaster: methane gas built up to critical levels in a mere 20 seconds, too % fast for automatic detectors to signal the danger. Only last month, Ishak Alaton, an Istanbul businessman, petitioned the government to close the aging mine, where four previous explosions have claimed 107 lives since 1945. Said Alaton: "It is a savage way of exploiting human life and human health...