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Viewing cable 09ANKARA669, Update on PKK Violence (April 24-30, 2009)

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
09ANKARA669 2009-05-07 15:49 2011-08-24 16:30 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Ankara 
VZCZCXRO8871
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DE RUEHAK #0669 1271549
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
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FM AMEMBASSY ANKARA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 9610
INFO RUCNRAQ/IRAQ COLLECTIVE
RHEFDIA/DIA WASHDC
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
RHMFIUU/425ABG IZMIR TU//CC//
RHMFIUU/39ABG INCIRLIK AB TU
RUEPGAB/MNF-I C2X BAGHDAD IZ
 
UNCLAS ANKARA 000669 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
SUBJECT: Update on PKK Violence (April 24-30, 2009) 
 
REF: ANKARA 603 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 April 24-30, 2009 reporting period, nine security 
officials were killed.  All were killed in an April 29 attack on an 
armored personnel.  PKK terrorists detonated an IED on the road 
between Lice and Diyarbakir in Diyarbakir Province as the vehicle 
passed.  Another security official died when the PKK opened fire on 
an outpost in Semdinli, Hakkari Province the same day.  One security 
personnel was injured by a PKK IED in Tunceli Province on April 28. 
The total number of security force casualties for the year through 
April 30, was 13 killed and ten injured. 
 
3. (U) During the same period, no PKK terrorist was killed.  Four 
PKKers were captured in different provinces on four separate days. 
Four PKKers surrendered in Silopi, Sirnak Province on April 27. 
According to official TGS website figures, through the fourth week 
of April, the number of PKK militants killed this year was ten, the 
number of those captured was 19, and the number of those who 
surrendered was 39. 
 
4. (U) During the reporting period no civilian was hurt.  The total 
number of civilian casualties for the year through the end of the 
fourth week of April, was one killed and five wounded. 
JEFFREY