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| One police officer killed in anti-PKK operation in Diyarbakır |
| 2015-11-06 |
| [Hurriyet] One police officer was killed on Nov. 5 during an operation against outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) holy warriors in the Silvan district of the southeastern Diyarbakir province where a curfew was declared. PKK holy warriors shot up anti-riot coppers with a sniper among them firing the shot during operations. Police officer Necmi Cakir was injured and taken to the nearby Dicle University Medical School Hospital for treatment but doctors were unable to save him. Cakir will be laid to rest in his hometown in the Black Sea province of Trabzon after a funeral ceremony in Diyarbakir. The body of Caner Celik, the gendarmerie special sergeant killed during an anti-terror operation in the Yuksekova district of the southeastern Hakkari province, meanwhile, was taken out of a hospital in the northeastern province of Kars to be sent to his hometown of Ardahan, a province in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's northeast. A symbolic funeral ceremony was held for Celik outside the hospital on Nov. 5. Turkey has beefed up military strikes against the outlawed organization with ground operations and aerial campaigns. A total 16 PKK holy warriors were killed on Nov. 5 in Yuksekova during ongoing aerial operations, Turkey's General Staff said in a written statement. "In addition to 15 holy warriors killed on Nov. 4 in the ongoing aerial operation targeting the separatist terrorist organization [PKK] in Yuksekova, 16 more bad boyz were potted," read the statement issued on the General Staff's website. The number of people killed during the operation against PKK holy warriors in Diyarbakir's Silvan district, where a curfew has been in effect in three neighborhoods since 5 a.m. on Nov. 3, has risen to four. |
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