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Suspected Kurdish rebels attack police station in Turkey

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Nov 25 (AFP) - Suspected Kurdish rebels attacked a police station in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast on Friday, causing damage but no casualties, a senior police official said.

The police headquarters in the town of Idil, in Diyarbakir province, were hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, the official told AFP, while witnesses reported also having heard gunfire.

Unrest in the southeast markedly increased this year after the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an armed separatist group blacklisted as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the European Union and the United States, called off a five-year unilateral ceasefire in June 2004.

The Kurdish conflict has claimed some 37,000 lives since the PKK took up arms for Kurdish self-rule in the region in 1984.