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934 soldiers commit ‘suicide’ in ten years
17:00 04.05.2012
ANKARA (DİHA) – Responding to a parliamentary question by the People’s Republican Party (CHP) Malatya MP Veli Ağbaba, the Minister of Defense İsmet Yılmaz has said that 934 soldiers committed suicide in the last ten years in Turkey.
Yılmaz has also noted that 1,470 soldiers died on duty during the same period, listing the reasons of deaths as gun accidents, unavailability for military service, military vehicle accidents, work accidents and suicide.
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