The Health and Safety Labour Observatory (ISIG) published a report titled "Young workers and workplace deaths." The report focused on workers aged 18 to 25, and revealed tragic figures over the past 12 years.

According to the report, among the 2,664 young workers who lost their lives during the analyzed period, 230 were women and 2,434 were men.

The report added that 280 migrant workers were among those who lost their lives in workplace incidents.

Other significant findings highlighted in the report are as follows:

-Istanbul recorded the highest number of young worker deaths.

- 26 percent of fatalities occurred in the construction and road construction sectors, 17 percent in agriculture and forestry, 9 percent in hospitality, 7 percent in transportation, and 6 percent in the metal industry.

-The report criticized the government’s rhetoric encouraging young people toward marriage and childbearing.

The report said: "Our young people, our future, should be living, studying, and working under healthy and safe conditions. Instead, they are trapped in poverty, insecure labor, violence, uncertainty, and workplace fatalities.

Particularly during the Justice and Development Party's rule, agricultural, industrial, educational, and social policies stripped young people of their future, turning them into cheap labor for capital. Despite this clear reality, the government cynically encourages young people to 'get married if you're in love,' under the pretext of preventing the loss of Turkey’s demographic advantage, meaning cheap labor. This attitude reflects the irony of declaring 2024 the ‘Year of Retirees,’ raising pensions to 15 thousand Turkish liras, yet still allowing dozens of elderly workers to die in workplace accidents."