A gendarme who was wounded in an attack by suspected terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) members on a gendarmerie vehicle in the Black Sea province of Gümüşhane on Sunday, died of his wounds on Monday.
The attack had killed a special sergeant and injured a gendarme after terrorists opened fire on the vehicle. The injured gendarme was treated at Trabzon Karadeniz Technical University Medical Faculty Hospital.
Turkish media reported that the gendarme, Salih Bulut, died around 8.30 p.m. on Monday. A funeral ceremony will be held in Trabzon for Bulut.