Cablegate: Update On Pkk Violence (March 8-15, 2008)

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E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
SUBJECT: Update on PKK Violence (March 8-15, 2008)

REF: ANKARA 488 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 March 8-15, 2008 reporting period, no Turkish
security official was killed or injured. The total number of
security forces casualties for the year through March 15, 2008 was
20 killed and 18 injured.

3. (U) During the same period, ten PKK terrorists were killed,
another ten were captured, and one surrendered. According to
official TGS website figures, through the second week of March, the
number of PKK militants killed this year was 260, the number of
those captured was 64, and the number of those who surrendered was
28.

4. (U) There were no incidents involving civilian casualties during
the reporting period. Civilian casualties for the year through the
end of the second week of March remain at seven killed, with another
49 wounded, in the January 3 Diyarbakir car bomb explosion.

WILSON

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