Turkish police detained 130 people, most of them members of a pro-Kurdish political party, for holding an illegal meeting today.
Illegal publications and photographs of jailed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan were on display at the meeting in the southeastern city of Sanliurfa, police sources said.
Those detained will appear in court tomorrow.
ost of them belonged to the Democratic Society Party (DTP), which favours more autonomy and cultural rights for Turkey's Kurdish minority.
Ankara suspects it has separatist ambitions and ties with the PKK, which launched a campaign for a homeland in 1984.
The PKK is considered a terrorist organisation by Ankara, the United States and the European Union.
But the EU, which Turkey wants to join, also urges Turkey to improve rights for the large Kurdish minority.
DTP politicians often come up against the law, and five cases have been launched against one DTP mayor in the mainly Kurdish southeast, one of which concerns comments about Turkey's ethnic minorities