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R 131443Z FEB 08
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SUBJECT: Update on PKK Violence (February 1 - 7, 2008)
REF: ANKARA 218 and previous
(U) Sensitive but unclassified - please protect accordingly.
1. (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK
violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff
(TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as
well as casualties incurred.
2. (U) During the February 1 - 7, 2008 reporting period, no GOT
security official was killed or injured in clashes. The total
number of security forces casualties for the year through January
31, 2008 was zero killed and 17 injured.
3. (U) During the same period, ten PKK terrorists were killed. Two
more PKKers were captured and three surrendered. According to
official TGS website figures, through the end of the first week of
February, the number of PKK militants killed this year was ten, the
number of those captured was 38, and the number of those who
surrendered was 20.
4. (U) There were no incidents involving civilian casualties during
the reporting period. Civilian casualties for the year through the
end of the first week of February remain at seven killed, with
another 49 wounded, in the Diyarbakir explosion.
WILSON