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| Soldiers killed in latest PKK attacks laid to rest in hometowns |
| 2015-10-20 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] Burial ceremonies for six Turkish soldiers recently killed in two separate terrorism-related incidents have been held in their respective hometowns across the country. Lt. Col. Ihsan Ejdar, 43, one of the four soldiers killed after festivities with outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) bully boyz in the Daglica village of the southeastern province of Hakkari, was buried in his hometown Ankara on Oct. 18. Among those who attended Ejdar's burial ceremony at the Kocatepe Mosque in the Turkish capital were Republican People's Party (CHP) head Kemal Kilicdaroglu, Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gönul, Turkish General Staff head Hulusi Akar and Turkish Interior Minister Selami Altinok. Turgay Topsakaloglu, 34, a gendarmerie sergeant killed after the festivities in Daglica, a village in Hakkari's Yuksekova district, was buried on Oct. 18 in his hometown Eskisehir, a province in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's Central Anatolian region. Topsakaloglu's funeral was held at the Resadiye Mosque in the province ahead of his burial. Lt. Ünal Darbogaz, 29, another soldier killed in the Daglica festivities, was buried in Istanbul on Oct. 18, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. Darbogaz's funeral was held at the Ömer Duruk Mosque in Istanbul's Ataköy neighborhood. Among those who attended Darbogaz's burial ceremony were Istanbul Governor Vasip Sahin and Istanbul Police Department head Mustafa Caliskan. |
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