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R 181451Z MAY 09
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UNCLAS ANKARA 000715 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
SUBJECT: Update on PKK Violence (May 1-7, 2009) 
 
REF: ANKARA 669 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 May 1-7, 2009, one security official was killed 
and another was injured when they stepped on a landmine in Bitlis 
Province on May 5.  The total number of security force casualties 
for the year through May 7, was 14 killed and 11 injured. 
 
¶3. (U) During the same period, no PKK terrorist was killed or 
captured.  According to official TGS website figures, through the 
first week of May, 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 
first week of May, was one killed and five wounded. 
JEFFREY