Turkish riot police disperse pro-Kurdish demonstrators with truncheons in downtown Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, March 2, 2008, during a protest against Turkey's cross-border ground incursion into northern Iraq, the AP reports.

Police in Istanbul has battled hundreds of supporters of a pro-Kurdish party who chanted slogans praising separatist Kurdish rebels during a protest denouncing Turkey's recent incursion into Iraq. Police used water canons and tear gas to disperse some 400 members of the Democratic Society Party, which is frequently accused of links to the rebels of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK. No casualties are reported.