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UNCLAS ANKARA 001333 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
SUBJECT: Update on PKK Violence (September 1-7, 2009) 
 
REF: ANKARA 1304 and previous 
 
¶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 September 1-7, 2009, no security official was killed 
or injured.  The total number of security force casualties for the 
year through September 7 was 41 killed and 73 injured. 
 
¶3. (U) During the same period, two PKKers were captured in Balikesir 
and Sanliurfa provinces on September 5 and 7.  According to official 
TGS website figures, through the first week of September the number 
of PKK militants killed and injured this year was 36, the number of 
those captured was 44, and the number of those who surrendered was 
¶87. 
 
¶4. (U) During the reporting period one civilian died when he stepped 
on a PKK IED in Diyarbakir province on September 4.  The PKK 
kidnapped four citizens in Hakkari and Hatay provinces on September 
1 and 4.  The total number of civilian casualties for the year 
through the end of the first week of September was 11 killed and 22 
wounded. 
 
SILLIMAN