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UNCLAS ANKARA 000432 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
SUBJECT: Update on PKK Violence (February 24 - 29, 2008) 
 
REF: ANKARA 348 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 24-29, 2008 reporting period, 17 security 
officials were killed in clashes after the Turkish military entered 
northern Iraq on February 21.  The total number of security forces 
casualties for the year through February 29, 2008 was 20 killed and 
18 injured. 
 
¶3. (U) During the same period, 161 PKK terrorists were reported 
killed in the cross border operation.  Five PKKers was captured and 
one surrendered in Turkey.  According to official TGS website 
figures, through the fourth week of February, the number of PKK 
militants killed this year was 250, the number of those captured was 
46, and the number of those who surrendered was 24. 
 
¶4. (U) There were no incidents involving civilian casualties during 
the reporting period.  Civilian casualties for the year through the 
end of the fourth week of February remain at seven killed, with 
another 49 wounded, in the Diyarbakir explosion. 
 
WILSON