A pro-Kurdish demonstration was staged in Turkish southeastern Batman province on Thursday after two days of protest and violence in its neighboring province of Diyarbakir, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.

A group of people staged an "illegal" demonstration in Batman, chanting slogans in favor of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party ( PKK), according to Anatolia.

A branch of Bank Asya and a hut of the Turkish State Railways Administration were totally burned after protestors threw molotov cocktails at them, said the report.

Some demonstrators also entered a branch of the Nationalist Movement Party, a major Turkish faction, which was seated on Cumhuriyet Street, threw some of the furniture to the street and burned them.

Turkish security forces intervened in the group and detained some demonstrators.

An unknown number of people were injured during the violence, the report said.

Batman's demonstration came right after the two-day demonstration ended on Wednesday in neighboring province of Diyarbakir.

In Diyarbakir protest, three people were killed and at least 250 others were wounded in the clashes between demonstrators and security forces.

The demonstration was triggered when bodies of four PKK members killed in a recent military operation were brought to Diyarbakir for burial on Tuesday.

The PKK launched an armed campaign against the Turkish government in 1984, fighting for the establishment of an independent Kurdish state in southeastern Turkey.

The group is blacklisted as a terrorist group by Turkey, the European Union and the United States.

Violence in southeastern Turkey has escalated since June 2004 when the PKK called off a five-year unilateral ceasefire and ended a period of relative calm in the region.

Source: Xinhua