The Health and Safety Labor Watch (İSİG) said in a report that at least 828 refugee workers were killed on the job in Turkey between 2013 and 2022.

The report was published to mark International Migrants Day and said that killings of refugee workers made up 4.41 percent of all work-related killings in Turkey. Fifty-one percent of the killed refugee workers were from Syria and 18 percent were from Afghanistan.

"The fact that seven of every 10 killed workers were those who became refugees because of wars shows that wars not only displace people but also cause 'proletarianization'," said İSİG.

İSİG said: "Migrant/refugee workers, who are seen as 'expendable workers' by bosses, work for long hours without any rules, with low wages and without occupational health and safety measures."

The highest number of killings of refugee workers occurred in the sectors of agriculture (29 percent) and construction (25 percent). "The main reasons for deaths in the agriculture sector was the transportation of an excessive number of workers in tractor trailers ... and fallings of a height as a result of the failure to take measures in the construction sector."

In Turkey there are over four million refugees, more than in any other country in the world. More than 3.7 million of them are from Syria and 300,000 of them from Afghanistan, according to government figures.

Studies show that an overwhelming majority of refugee workers work in insecure and precarious conditions, and are often paid lower than the minimum wage.