The train with 362 passengers going from Edirne's Uzunköprü district to Istanbul took out of the railroad in the evening hours of July 8th. A total of 24 people were killed and 124 people were wounded. Due to the distorted roads to the area where the accident happened, rescue work continued until the next day morning, helicopters had to be used as well.

After the accident, the government authorities brought a temporary ban on the media coverage related to the accident while they claimed the accident was a result of heavy rains.

HDP mobilized its provincial and district organizations in the region and called for solidarity. The spokeperson of the HDP said that the rentier politics of the government is responsible for the accident and those who are responsible must be punished and she also called for a transparent process.

The head of the Istanbul Branch of the Union of Transportation Employees' Union (BTS) stated that the accident was not due to rain but due to the lack of infrastructure and that the railway line was not made properly and that it was not audited. The BTS president also points out the removal of road guardians and the transfer of transportation to the private sector as the underlying reasons for the disaster.

Regular control of the final rails was not being done since the railroad controllers were narrowed down 5 years ago. In addition, last year, a company close to the AKP completed the renewal of the railroad within a year without being subject to a test. The employment of subcontract workers by the Ministry of Transportation also resulted in the lack of infrastructure quality and control.

In the first period of the AKP, it also caused a disaster in the high-speed train project and 41 people lost their lives, and no authority was tried again in that accident.