Number of Security Forces Killed Rises to 5

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Number of security forces losing their lives in conflict between Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H) in Turkey’s southeastern Sur district of Diyarbakır has risen to five.

CLICK - 3 SOLDIERS KILLED IN SUR

Captain Yiğit Can Çiğa, Noncommissioned Officer Özgür Erdoğan, and Specialist Sergeant Osman Ateş had lost their lives yesterday (January 27) and that a commissar wounded by sniper shooting died.

Lastly, a police officer wounded heavily in the conflict erupted yesterday couldn’t be saved despite all the efforts.

Treatment of three soldiers in hospital is ongoing. (EKN/TK)

* Photo: Muharrem Cin / AA