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R 270706Z MAY 09
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UNCLAS ANKARA 000749 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
SUBJECT: Update on PKK Violence (May 16-23, 2009) 
 
REF: ANKARA 716 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 16-23, 2009, no security official was killed 
or injured.  The total number of security force casualties for the 
year through May 23, was 19 killed and 16 injured. 
 
¶3. (U) During the same period, four PKK terrorists were killed in 
clashes in Diyarbakir Province on May 22.  Six PKKers were captured 
on May 19 and 20 in Adana, Antalya, Hakkari, Sirnak, and Tunceli 
Provinces.  According to official TGS website figures, through the 
third week of May, the number of PKK militants killed this year was 
23, the number of those captured was 23, and the number of those who 
surrendered was 45. 
 
¶4. (U) During the reporting period one civilian died on May 20, from 
an explosion attributed to a PKK IED in Siirt Province.  The total 
number of civilian casualties for the year through the end of the 
third week of May, was five killed and eight wounded. 
 
JEFFREY