(23 Jun 2007)
1. High wide of protest march
2. Wide of march
3. Mid of men in uniform holding Turkish flags in march
4. Protesters holding large red Turkish flag
5. Protesters holding banner
6. Wide of march
7. Tilt down from close-up of flag to protester holding it
8. Children holding posters in rally
9. Various of protesters in march
10. Various set up shots of Semiha Kirbas, with picture of dead soldier on T-shirt
11. SOUNDBITE: (Turkish) Semiha Kirbas, sister of soldier Samet Kirbas killed in conflict:
"My brother became a martyr 25 days ago, I came here to show support to my brother. We have to say stop the terror."
12. Pan across protesters
13. Various of protesters holding up poster reading: "No to Terror"
14. Various mid shots of protesters singing
STORYLINE:
More than a thousand Turks marched on Saturday through the streets of Istanbul to protest increased attacks by separatist Kurdish rebels in the country's southeast.
The march, organised by some 42 non-governmental organisations, was set to music as protesters walked
quietly instead of chanting slogans.
"No to terror," and "Peace at home, peace in the world," read some of the banners protesters carried.
The march came more than two weeks after the Turkish military said on its Web site it expects "mass resistance," from people in the face of rebel attacks.
The sister of a soldier, Semiha Kirbas, who was killed in an attack said on Saturday she had joined the march to show her support for her dead brother.
"My brother became a martyr 25 days ago," said Semiha Kirbas. "We have to say stop the terror".
Saturday's protest came after the Turkish General Staff asked citizens to show their condemnation of recent attacks.
Rebels from the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, who are fighting for autonomy in Turkey's south-east, have escalated attacks recently on Turkish targets.
Turkish troops have retaliated, killing rebels.
Since the beginning of the year, more than 50 soldiers have been killed in Turkey in clashes with the rebels, or in remote controlled or mine explosions.
The PKK recently declared a ceasefire and said it would only strike in self-defence but attacks - mainly on military targets - have continued, despite the announcement.
Turkish leaders are debating whether to launch a cross-border offensive into northern Iraq, where PKK rebels stage attacks into Turkey.
The Turkish military has been carrying out several anti-rebel offensives within Turkey and has massed troops along the border with Iraq.
The conflict with the PKK has killed tens of thousands of people since 1984, when the rebels first took up arms against the Turkish state.

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