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Rönesans Holding's health investments unit will invest 4.7 billion euros in six huge hospital projects in Turkey in line with the public and private partnership (PPP) model, said the unit's CEO during a summit on April 27. 

One soldier has been killed while another has been wounded after a tank fell off a cliff while maneuvering in the southeastern province of ??rnak's Uludere district. 

Specialized Sgt. Özcan Mutlu was heavily wounded when the maneuvering tank fell off a cliff in Uludere on April 5. Mutlu was promptly brought to ??rnak Military Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries. 

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu said the country's defense industry executive committee on March 9 approved $5.9 billion in new defense projects, $4.5 billion of which will consist of domestic production.

Anka, an unmanned aerial vehicle developed by the Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), carried out its debut missionary flight in the eastern province of Elaz?? on Feb. 5. 

Taking off from Elaz?? Airport, Anka ("Phoenix" in English) ascended to an altitude of 19,000 feet to carry out a four-hour exploration and observation flight. 

The Roman-era rock tombs in the eastern province of Elaz??'s A??n district will soon be brought to light, according to District Gov. Mehmet Fatih Yak?no?lu, who said the district was not very well known despite its historical touristic features such as the Hastek Fortress, ?spir Mansion, rock tombs, mounds, the Sülük and Keban dam lakes and traditional A??n houses. 

Seven militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed in military operations in the southeastern town of Derik, a district in the southeastern province of Mardin, while one soldier was killed and another was injured.

One police officer was killed on Nov. 5 during an operation against outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the Silvan district of southeastern Diyarbak?r province, where a curfew had been declared.

At least 46 people, including a number of high-ranking officials and security personnel, were detained in 18 Turkish provinces on Nov. 3, as part of an anti-terror operation in the Aegean province of ?zmir against the followers of the U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gülen, a former ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. 

A Turkish major, who was killed Sept. 26 in an attack by suspected members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the eastern province of Tunceli, was laid to rest in Ankara on Sept. 27.

A man in the Black Sea town of ?ile has confessed to killing a woman and then dismembering her body into several parts so that he could throw it into the trash.

Police had been searching for the killers of Güne? Kanak since Aug. 13, after the 35-year-old woman?s body parts were found in a landfill site in ?ile.