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In a meeting chaired by ruling Justice and Development (AKP) Istanbul Deputy Mustafa Şentop, a parliamentary joint commission decided by a majority of votes to revoke the seat of Faysal Sarıyıldız due to missing too many sessions of parliament. 

The commission will refer the case of Sarıyıldız, from the eastern province of Şırnak, to the general assembly for a final decision. 

Kurdish militants killed a soldier, village guard and three workers in attacks in three separate provinces in southeastern Turkey on Monday, officials said, Reuters reported.

Security personnel seized a large number of ammunition and explosives believed to belong to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) buried underground in the Uludere district of the southeastern province of Şırnak on June 28.

The Şırnak Governor's Office said the discovery was made upon a denunciation in a dried stream bed in a valley called "Serin" in the Andaç village. 

Three soldiers were killed in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attack in the Uludere district of the southeastern province of Şırnak on June 27, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.
     
Security sources said PKK militants opened fire on a military vehicle carrying food to the Elmalı military base in the region with long-barreled weapons.

Turkish security forces have killed 53 outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in operations in the eastern and southeastern provinces in the past week, the Turkish General Staff said in a statement on June 23.        

The statement said 53 militants were killed in the Şırnak, Hakkari, Diyarbakır, Bingöl, Elazığ and Siirt provinces.        

Some 10,771 incidents of violence against healthcare workers were reported in Turkey in 2016, the Health Ministry has announced following an MP's inquiry, daily Birgün reported on June 19.

One Turkish soldier was killed and another was wounded in an attack by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the southeastern province Diyarbakır on June 19, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

A lawmaker from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has lost her seat in parliament due to her lack of attendance.

Tuğba Hezer Öztürk, an HDP lawmaker from the eastern province of Van, was stripped of her parliamentary seat on June 14 after not attending talks in parliament for nearly a year.

A village guard injured during an attack by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on June 11 in the southeastern province of Şırnak has succumbed to his injuries in hospital, Doğan News Agency has reported.

A total of 1,068 militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed in the last nine months, according to Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu.