Deputies and activists of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) staged a protest at the outskirts of the Cudi mountain in southeastern Turkey which has been the scene of bloody terrorist events staged by the PKK.

The DTP members including party parliamentary leader Ahmet Turk and Diyarbakir Mayor Osman Baydemir staged a protest rally at Cudi.

The protestors said they want to call for an end to the bloody conflict between Turkey and the PKK.

There was talk that the DTP wanted an immediate end to the Turkish military operations against the PKK which has taken a beating in recent months both in southeastern Turkey and in northern Iraq.

On Tuesday Turkish forces killed 10 PKK militants in the Tunceli province.

The protestors stayed in tents near Cudi overnight and started to disperse on Wednesday.

Turkish authorities estimate around 1,000 PKK terrorists are holed up in the Cudi and Gabor mountains in southeastern Turkey. There are also allegedly 3,500 PKK terrorists in northern Iraq.