In Turkey thousands of Kurds rallied in Diyarbakir on Friday demanding an end to deadly fighting between the army and Kurdish rebels amid government efforts to end a 25-year insurgency. Nearly 10,000 people relatives of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels killed in clashes marched through Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast, shouting Martyrs never die. Some 45,000 people , most of them Kurdish rebels have been killed since 1984 when the PKK, blacklisted as a terrorist group by Turkey and much of the international community, picked up arms for self-rule in Turkey's mainly Kurdish east and southeast. For the past few months, the Ankara government has been working on a series of measures aimed at improving the rights of the Kurdish community and eroding support for the PKK.