Ten people have been arrested as Turkish police used warning shots and tear gas to break up a rally by a Kurdish party that authorities are trying to ban.

Police broke up demonstrators chanting slogans in favour of Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Turkey's NTV news channel reported.

As many as 2,000 demonstrators loyal to Ocalan rallied in the city of Van on Saturday. 

The demonstration was organised by the country's main Kurdish political movement, the Democratic Society Party (DTP) – a group accused by Ankara of colluding with PKK fighters.