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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.
The General Staff said on its website the soldier, who was being treated at the Gülhane Military Academy of Medicine (GATA), died at 3:15 a.m.
An IED detonated remotely killed six soldiers and wounded one as they were traveling in a military vehicle in Lice.
The General Staff extended its condolences to the families and friends of the slain soldiers.
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 İdil 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.
Additionally, the three soldiers who lost their lives on Friday after a building used by a special forces unit collapsed in Sur were laid to rest on Sunday. Nine of the 12 members of the unit that remained under the building's rubble were retrieved from the site, and the bodies of the three others were found following search and rescue work.
First Lt. Enes Demir, the bodies of two gendarmes, Noncommissioned Officer Hüseyin Gümüşdağ and Doğukan Tazegül, were sent to Kocatepe Mosque before their burial following a military ceremony at Diyarbakır Military Hospital.
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