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Viewing cable 08ANKARA122, Update on PKK Violence (January 8-15, 2007)

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08ANKARA122 2008-01-23 05:59 2011-08-24 16:30 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Ankara
VZCZCXRO8501
RR RUEHBC RUEHDA RUEHDE RUEHIHL RUEHKUK
DE RUEHAK #0122 0230559
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 230559Z JAN 08
FM AMEMBASSY ANKARA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 4996
INFO RUCNRAQ/IRAQ COLLECTIVE
RHEFDIA/DIA WASHDC
RUEHAK/USDAO ANKARA TU
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC
RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHDC//USDP:PDUSDP/ISA:EUR/ISA:NESA//
RHEHAAA/NSC WASHDC
RUEUITH/ODC ANKARA TU
RUEKJCS/JOINT STAFF WASHDC//J-3/J-5//
RUFOADA/JAC MOLESWORTH RAF MOLESWORTH UK
RHMFISS/EUCOM POLAD VAIHINGEN GE
RHMFISS/HQ USCENTCOM MACDILL AFB FL
RHMFISS/425ABG IZMIR TU//CC//
RHMFISS/39ABG INCIRLIK AB TU
RUEPGAB/MNF-I C2X BAGHDAD IZ
UNCLAS ANKARA 000122 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
SUBJECT: Update on PKK Violence (January 8-15, 2007) 
 
REF: ANKARA 56 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 January 8-15, 2007 reporting period, no GOT 
security official was killed or injured in clashes.  The total 
number of security forces casualties for the year through January 
15, 2008 was zero killed and 17 injured. 
 
3. (U) During the same period, no PKK terrorist was killed.  Three 
PKKers surrendered and fourteen were captured.  According to 
official TGS website figures, through the end of the second week of 
January, the number of PKK militants killed this year was zero, the 
number of those captured was seventeen, and the number of those who 
surrendered was four. 
 
4. (U) One of the civilians wounded in the January 3, 2008 
Diyarbakir car bombing succumbed to his injuries during the 
reporting period.  Civilian casualties for the year through the end 
of the second week of January are now seven killed, 49 wounded. 
 
WILSON