Cablegate: Update On Pkk Violence (January 1-7, 2008)

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SUBJECT: Update on PKK Violence (January 1-7, 2008)

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(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 1 - 7, 2008 reporting period, no GOT
security official was killed but 17 were reported injured in an
explosion in Diyarbakir. When a remote car bomb was detonated in
the evening of January 3 in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, six
civilians were killed and a total of 67, including 17 military, were
injured. The PKK later apologized for the explosion. The total
number of security force casualties for the year through January 7,
2008 was zero killed and 17 injured.

3. (U) During the same period, no PKK terrorist was killed. One
PKKer surrendered and three were captured. According to official
TGS website figures, through the end of the first week of January,
the number of PKK militants killed this year was zero, the number of
those captured was three, and the number of those who surrendered
was one.

4. (U) Civilian casualties for the year through the end of the first
week of January were six killed, with another 50 wounded, in the
Diyarbakir explosion.

WILSON

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