(15 Dec 2007)
1. Various of demonstrators rallying
2. SOUNDBITE: (German) Yuksel Koc, board member of the federation of Kurdish associations in Germany:
"We are asking the international community to influence the Turkish state to put (rebel leader Abdullah) Mr Ocalan in a standard detention. Second we are asking to allow international medical observers to check the condition of Mr Ocalan."
3. Top shot of rally; people carrying poster of rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan
4. Wide of stage
5. Pan of protestors
6. Officer on horseback among crowd during a minor incident
7. Policewoman filming the incident
8. Various of police monitoring crowd
9. Police holding woman and taking her away
10. SOUNDBITE: (German) Markus Niesczery, spokesman of the police in D�sseldorf:
"With a fast intervention and a good cooperation with the organiser we managed to calm the situation quickly. So we still categorise this as a peaceful event."
11. Wide of Kurdish folk musicians performing on stage
12. Wide of audience; women in traditional Kurdish costumes
13. People walking at demonstration
STORYLINE:
About 10,000 Kurds calling for the release of rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan demonstrated in Duesseldorf on Saturday, police said.
About 1,000 officers were deployed in the western German city to prevent trouble at the march, which also protested against potential Turkish military involvement in northern Iraq.
Police said there were a few small scuffles on the fringes of the event, and a few demonstrators were detained, but did not immediately give figures.
Some of the marchers carried red signs reading "Free Ocalan" - a reference to the founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, known by its Kurdish abbreviation PKK, who is serving a life prison sentence in Turkey.
"We are asking the international community to influence the Turkish state to put Mr Ocalan in a standard detention. Second we are asking to allow international medical observers to check the condition of Mr Ocalan," said Yuksel Koc, board member of the federation of Kurdish associations in Germany.
The PKK has been fighting for autonomy in the predominantly Kurdish southeast of Turkey since 1984.
Public pressure has built up this year on the government in Ankara to hit PKK bases in the north of neighbouring Iraq.
Earlier this month, the Turkish military said it fired on a group of about 50 to 60 PKK guerrillas inside Iraqi territory, inflicting "significant losses."
A minor incident occurred at the rally on Saturday but police managed to calm the situation and prevent any violence.
Markus Niesczery, spokesman of the police in D�sseldorf, said: "With a fast intervention and a good cooperation with the organiser we managed to calm the situation quickly."
"So we still categorise this as a peaceful event," he said.
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