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UNCLAS ANKARA 000124 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
SUBJECT: Update on PKK Violence (January 16-23, 2009) 
 
REF: ANKARA 93 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 16-23, 2009, reporting period, no security 
official was killed or injured.  The total number of security force 
casualties for the year through January 15, 2009, was zero killed 
and zero injured. 
 
¶3. (U) During the same period, no PKK terrorist was killed in 
clashes.  Five PKKers surrendered, including four in Silopi, Sirnak 
Province on January 16 and 21 and one in Hakkari Province on January 
¶22.  According to official TGS website figures, through the third 
week of January, the number of PKK militants killed this year was 
zero, the number of those captured was four, and the number of those 
who surrendered was five. 
 
¶4. (U) During the reporting period no civilian was killed in 
PKK-related violence.  The total number of civilian casualties for 
the year through the end of the third week of January was zero 
killed and zero wounded. 
JEFFREY