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UNCLAS ANKARA 000184 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
SUBJECT: Update on PKK Violence (January 24-31, 2009) 
 
REF: ANKARA 124 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 24-31, 2009, no security official was 
injured or killed.  The total number of security force casualties 
for the year through January 31, 2009, was zero killed and zero 
injured. 
 
¶3. (U) During the same period, no PKK terrorist was killed in 
clashes.  Five PKKers surrendered in Silopi, Sirnak Province on 
January 29.  According to official TGS website figures, through the 
fourth 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 ten. 
 
¶4. (U) During the reporting period one civilian was injured by a PKK 
IED in Hassa, Hatay Province on January 24.  The total number of 
civilian casualties for the year through the end of the fourth week 
of January, was zero killed and one wounded. 
JEFFREY