(5 Feb 2008) SHOTLIST 1. Various of people gathering for demonstration 2. Close of people holding up their fingers in the victory sign next to poster of Abdullah Ocalan, founding leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) 3. Wide of crowd UPSOUND: crowd chanting "Ocalan" 4. Woman holding poster of Ocalan 5. Demonstrators holding up Ocalan posters 6. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Vox Pop, masked demonstrator, Name not given: "This nation (referring to Kurdish population) is being massacred, you can not get rid of a nation like this. Kurds will defend their honour, they will defend their culture. Our leader is Ocalan, we will turn the world into hell for them if they don't free Ocalan." 7. Child waving scarf with PKK colours 8. Close of masked woman 9. Wide of crowd leaving gathering area 10. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Vox Pop, demonstrator, Name not given: "Thousands of people gathered here to go to the operation area to call for peace, to stop war and and call for freedom. Thousands of youngsters got killed, we are going there to be human shields." 11. Wide of crowd applauding 12. Mid shot of demonstrators UPSOUND: chanting "Erdogan is a Murderer" 13. Man in crowd holding up poster of Ocalan 14. Wide of crowd STORYLINE About two thousand demonstrators gathered in Diyarbakir, on Tuesday, to show their support for the 150 people travelling to act as human shield in the border province of Sirnak where the Turkish military is conducting air raids against Kurdish rebels. The demonstrators chanted slogans calling for an end to Turkey's military air raids on Kurdish areas along the Turkish-Iraqi border. "This nation (referring to Kurdish population) is being massacred, you can not get rid of a nation like this. Kurds will defend their honour, they will defend their culture," said one masked demonstrator. "Thousands of people gathered here to go to the operation area to call for peace, to stop war and and call for freedom," another demonstrator said. The human shields "gathered here to go to operation area to call for peace, to stop war and and call for freedom," another demonstrator said. The demonstrators also called for the release of Kurdish rebel leader and Kurdistan Worker's Party, or PKK, founder Abdullah Ocalan. On Monday, Turkish fighter jets bombed suspected Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq, a senior Kurdish official said. No casualties were reported. The Turkish bombing raid lasted one hour early on Monday, in an area inside Iraq along the country's northern border with Turkey, said Jabbar Yawar, an undersecretary for the ministry governing Kurdish protection forces known as peshmerga. The area includes the towns of Khnera, Khwakurd and Sidakan in Irbil province, he said. Yawar said there were no civilian or peshmerga casualties in the mostly abandoned area. Turkey has frequently targeted members of the PKK, in cross-border raids into Iraqi territory, where thousands of the rebels are based. The PKK reportedly uses its strongholds in northern Iraq for cross-border strikes into Turkey. Since December 16, the Turkish military has confirmed four cross-border aerial raids into Iraq. Iraqi Kurdish officials, however, have reported other air strikes by Turkish jets, but those have never been confirmed by Turkey. Turkey's military says the raids have inflicted heavy losses on the PKK, killing as many as 175 rebels and destroying command and logistic centres, shelters, and ammunition depots. The rebel group is believed to have a large base in Khnera, where Turkish planes struck on Monday. It was unclear whether the base was damaged. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/94f75a9cdcc9fc24123ccb8d51aa3436

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