Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Gültan Kışanak will go to Paris to hold talks with French authorities about the killing of three Kurdish woman activists and to join the funeral ceremony of three politicians.
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Abertzale Left sent condolences to Kurdish community
Solidarity message after the killings of Sakine Cansız, Dogan Fidan and Leyla Söylemez
The Basque Abertzale Left has sent the following solidarity message to the Kurdish community, after the killings of Sakine Cansız, Dogan Fidan and Leyla Söylemez:
Yesterday, 9th January 2013, Sakine Cansız, Dogan Fidan and Leyla Söylemez were shot dead in the office of Kurdish Information Center in Paris.
The struggles of our peoples run together and in this harsh moments the Abertzale Left wants to show its solidarity and our condolences to the Kurdish People and especially to the Kurdish Diaspora.
Agur eta Ohore Sakine, Dogan eta Leyla.
Bijî Kurdistan!
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Questions – Amed Dicle
The killings happened on a street near the crowded Gare du Nord. The Kurdistan Information Centre is under continuous police control.
Three Kurdish woman activists Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Söylemez were killed in Paris. The killings happened on a street near the Paris Gare du Nord, one of the most crowded and closely guarded streets in the French capital. In addition, the Kurdistan Information Centre is under continuous police control. The files of some formerly arrested Kurdish politicians had revealed the fact that the Centre had been monitored at any moment.
Fidan Doğan, Paris representative of the KNK, made a telephone conversation with a friend of hers at around 13:00 on Wednesday afternoon. In her last speech on the phone, Doğan says that she was still in the office and that she would be home in the evening. Doğan’s friends who went to her office when she didn’t answer her phone till late hours in the night, saw blood shedding from under the office door. They entered and saw the dead bodies of three women: Cansız and Doğan have been shot on the head and Söylemez on the head and the stomach. A silencer was used in the armed attack, according to the initial reports coming through. French police has announced that the three women fell victim to a very professional execution.
Here are some questions concerning the armed attack against the Kurdish activists;
1- The execution of three women in the ‘safest’ area of Paris is not an ordinary incident. The perpetrators must have been aware of this truth and acted in consideration of it.
2- Sakine Cansız was the single woman alive among the co-founders of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party). Cansız is a revolutionary woman known for her resistance against torture in Diyarbakır prison in the period of 12 September 1980 military coup in Turkey.
3- AKP supporter papers, such as Yeni Şafak, reported the news as an internal execution, yet before an official statement has been made by French police or autopsy has been performed on the victims. This is a point worthy of consideration.
4- Why did the attack target women and those in Europe? The fact that Sakine Cansız was a woman co-founder of the PKK shows that the attack was aimed at the ideological spirit of the organization. From this point of view, the killings were obviously carried out on the basis of a professionally planned purpose. The news the Turkish media has reported using as a source the state Anadolu Ajansı (Anatolian News Agency) give clues as to how the incident will be discussed from now on.
5- The killing of ten Kurdish guerrillas and three senior European officials of the PKK came following the statements of Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan who had said that “We will arrest you wherever we find you”. It seems both attacks are a follow-up of this statement.
AMED DICLE / NEWS DESK
Kurds gathered at the scene of killings
Federation of Kurdish Assocations in France (FEYKA) called on all Kurds in Europe to gather at the scene of the killings
Kurds living in Paris have begun to gather in front of the Kurdistan Information Office where three Kurdish woman activists were found dead early this morning.
The Federation of Kurdish Assocations in France (FEYKA) called on all Kurds in Europe to gather at the scene of the execution in Paris. FEYKA also called on the Kurdish students in France to boycott schools and the Kurdish shopkeepers to take down the shutters in protest against the killings.
French police has launched an investigation into the killing of Sakine Cansiz, a co-founder of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party), Fidan Dogan, 32, representative of the KNK (Kurdistan National Congress) in Paris and Leyla Söylemez.
ANF / PARIS
Demonstration in Diyarbakır to condemn Paris killings
Demonstration to take place in the afternoon
Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Diyarbakır organization will hold a press conference and a demonstration today to condemn the killing of three Kurdish women activists in Paris early this morning.
Speaking to Nuçe TV on Thursday morning, BDP Diyarbakır provincial co-chair Zübeyde Zümrüt strongly condemned the killings which she said have caused a great sorrow and anger in Diyarbakır. Zümrüt called on all political parties and non-governmental organizations in the city to join the press conference which will take place in front of DTK (Democratic Society Congress) building in the afternoon and will be followed by a march to the Koşuyolu Park.
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Demonstration in Diyarbakır to condemn Paris killings
Demonstration to take place in the afternoon
Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Diyarbakır organization will hold a press conference and a demonstration today to condemn the killing of three Kurdish women activists in Paris early this morning.
Speaking to Nuçe TV on Thursday morning, BDP Diyarbakır provincial co-chair Zübeyde Zümrüt strongly condemned the killings which she said have caused a great sorrow and anger in Diyarbakır. Zümrüt called on all political parties and non-governmental organizations in the city to join the press conference which will take place in front of DTK (Democratic Society Congress) building in the afternoon and will be followed by a march to the Koşuyolu Park.
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