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Viewing cable 08ANKARA1718, Update on PKK Violence (September 16-23, 2008)

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08ANKARA1718 2008-09-26 12:41 2011-08-24 16:30 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Ankara 
VZCZCXRO2467
RR RUEHBC RUEHDA RUEHDE RUEHIHL RUEHKUK
DE RUEHAK #1718 2701241
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 261241Z SEP 08
FM AMEMBASSY ANKARA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 7570
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//
RUZEJAA/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 001718 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
SUBJECT: Update on PKK Violence (September 16-23, 2008) 
 
REF: ANKARA 1665 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 September 16-23, 2008 reporting period, one 
security official died in a PKK-linked IED explosion.  Six officials 
were injured, including one in a clash and the rest in IED 
explosions.  The total number of security force casualties for the 
year through September 23, 2008, was 105 killed and 163 injured. 
 
3. (U) During the same period, one PKK terrorist was killed in a 
clash.  Four PKKers were captured and another seven surrendered. 
According to official TGS website figures, through the third week of 
September, the number of PKK militants killed this year was 595, the 
number of those captured was 135, and the number of those who 
surrendered was 118. 
 
4. (U) During the reporting period one citizen was killed in an IED 
explosion in Sason, Batman Province on September 19.  Another was 
injured in an IED explosion in Yuksekova, Hakkari Province on 
September 22.  Four citizens were kidnapped by the PKK.  One was 
kidnapped in Semdinli, Hakkari Province on September 19, two in 
Nazimiye, Tunceli Province on September 20 and a second in Hakkari 
on September 21.  The total number of civilian casualties for the 
year through the end of the second week of September, was 43 killed, 
with another 244 wounded. 
 
WILSON