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The Grand Turk
4 soldiers killed in battle with PKK in Southeast
2016-02-22
Four soldiers were killed in separate clashes with the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the mainly Kurdish Southeast, the General Staff announced on Sunday.

According to a statement on its website, the General Staff said a soldier had died in a clash in the İdil, Şırnak province, on Sunday. Two others soldiers were killed and another injured in Diyarbakır's Sur district the same day.

One soldier who was injured on Feb. 18 after an explosion hit a military convoy in Lice, in Diyarbakır province, died early on Sunday, the statement said. An IED detonated remotely killed six soldiers and wounded one as they were traveling in a military vehicle in Lice.

The General Staff also announced on Sunday that 12 members of the terrorist PKK were killed in military operations conducted over the weekend.

"[A total of] 6 terrorists were killed in Sur and the rest in Ä°dil as the number of [PKK] members that were neutralized during the recent clashes reached 219. In addition, three Kalashnikovs and 90 cartridges of ammunition were acquired and seven improvised explosives were disposed of," the stamement continued.
Posted by:Steve White

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