(17 Feb 2011)
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1. Various of Kurdish demonstrators marching with flags and banners
2. Protestors holding banners depicting jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan
3. Masked demonstrator holding box of firecrackers
4. Pan of police armoured vehicle driving fast past demonstrators, who throw Molotov cocktail and rocks, man chases after with firecrackers
5. Protesters throwing rocks and Molotov cocktail at police armoured vehicle, pan of vehicle driving off covered in flames
6. Wide of police vehicle spraying water on demonstrators
7. Demonstrators running away from water
8. Police squad marching down street around police vehicle
9. Police escorting an arrested female demonstrator
10. Police searching male demonstrator and finding marbles in his pocket (used in sling shots to shoot at police)
11. Photographers gathering around a male demonstrator being arrested on the floor
STORYLINE:
Violent clashes took place between Kurdish protesters and police in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir on Thursday, during a demonstration against alleged police brutality during protests earlier this week.
Protesters carried Kurdish flags and banners with the image of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, who has been imprisoned since 1999.
The demonstration turned violent as protesters clashed with police, with some throwing stones and petrol bombs at armoured vehicles.
Police fired tear gas and water cannon to try to disperse the demonstrators.
Several people were arrested.
The protesters accuse the police of being too heavy-handed at a demonstration in the city on 15 February over Ocalan's continued imprisonment.
Diyarbakir is the largest city in the country's Kurdish-dominated southeast, where Kurdish rebels have been fighting for autonomy for decades.
Ocalan was captured in Kenya in 1999 and returned to Turkey where he was sentenced to death for treason.
His sentence was later commuted to life in prison.
His group has fought for autonomy since 1984.
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