KT News and Comment: UPDATE: Güney ‘not Sakine’s driver’ and had ‘no ties with the PKK’ … French prosecutors have filed preliminary murder charges against a man they describe as an occasional driver for Sakine Cansiz, co-founder of the PKK and one of the three Kurdish women activists assassinated in Paris on 9 Jan. French…
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Why do assassins choose France?
By Mufid Abdulla: The recent tragic, brutal events in Paris serve as a stark reminder of other political assassinations that have happened in recent decades in Paris and France. The Belgian police told the PKK and the French authorities that they believed that there were two hit squads in Europe planning to strike against the…
French authorities ‘know who killed three Kurdish women activists’
KT News and Comment: The Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has asked the French government to speed up its investigation into the brutal assassination of three female PKK activists in the centre of Paris on 9 January. The BBC reported last night that the French authorities are holding two suspects, one of whom was a…
Hudaybiyah and the Great Game: Gülen and the current peace negotiations
By Dr Aland Mizell: Why Did Gülen Compare the Current Peace Negotiation between the Turkish Government and the PKK Leader Oçalan with the Truce of Hudaybiyah between the Prophet Mohammed and Non-Muslims? I hope the Turkish government finally understands that peace cannot come by force, but rather that listening and talking can achieve it. The…
Turkey bombs PKK bases on the eve of assassinated politicians’ funerals
KT News: The Turkish air force has mounted heavy attacks on PKK bases in the Qandil mountains. According to AFP, 16 F-16 fighter jets have bombed 50 locations and they were targeting the PKK leadership. The Firat news agency claims that seven PKK fighters have been killed. This attack is on the eve of the…
Murdered politicians’ funerals to be held in north Kurdistan
KT News: The bodies of the three Kurdish women who were assassinated in Paris last week are expected to be delivered to their families today. A farewell ceremony for the women will held tomorrow at Villiers-Le-Bel between 11 am and 5 pm. Firat News Agency reports that the bodies will be sent by plane to…
Assassinations and secret arms caches: new revelations of Turkish ‘deep state’ operations
KT News and Comment: Turkey’s prime minister Erdogan has dismissed the idea that Turkish ‘deep state’ agents could be responsible for last week’s brutal assassinations of three Kurdish women activists in Paris. But he was quick to to speculate about PKK ‘splits’ and has even referred to the murdered women as terrorists. Bookmark on Delicious…
Call for a thorough investigation into the assassination of three Kurdish women activists in Paris
By KNC-NA: Los Angeles, CA – As members of the Kurdish National Congress of North America (KNC-NA) and the Kurdish Americans of California, we will hold a peaceful demonstration in protest to the recent political killing of three Kurdish women activists in Paris. This protest will start on Monday, January 14, 2013 between the hours of 11:00 AM …
KCK statement on the Paris assassinations
By the KCK Executive Council Presidency: 10.01.13 One of the founders of our party the PKK, the elite and advance guard of our movement, a symbol of dignity and resistance, the head cadre representative of the immoveable will of Kurdish women, comrade Sakine Cansız (Sara); Representative of KNK in Paris, the talented diplomat of Kurdish…
‘Kurdish women and people will be free. Nobody is strong enough to kill them’: BDP leader
KT News: Speaking in Paris today, following the brutal executions of three Kurdish female activists, the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) co-chair Gültan Kışanak declared: “We promise, the Kurdish women and people will be free. Nobody is strong enough to kill them.” She told reporters that the murders on Wednesday night were directed at…
Brutal execution of Kurdish women activists is a cynical attempt to derail the peace process that won’t succeed
Press statement by Kurdistan National Congress UK & Peace in Kurdistan Campaign: In the early hours of Thursday morning, in the heart of Paris, an appalling crime was perpetrated against the entire Kurdish nation: the cold-blooded murder of three of our most dedicated Kurdish women activists. Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin…
Why have you assassinated peace?
By Mufid Abdulla: The Turkish state has long been reluctant to talk and make peace with the Kurdish nationalist movement in the north of Kurdistan. This approach has endured since Ottoman times and the chauvinist ideas of Kamal Attaturk, the founder of the modern state, live on everywhere in Turkey today. In the 1990s, when…
In memory of our friends: Sakine Cansız, Fidan Dogan and Leyla Söylemez
Press Release by EU-Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC): It was with shock and grief we received the horrible news about the deaths of our dear friends who were massacred in Paris today in the most grotesque way. Sakine Canziz, the co-founder of the PKK in 1978 holds a crucial role in the party. Fidan Dogan (Rojbin),…
KNK: 3 Kurdish women politicians killed in Paris
By Kurdistan National Congress: We are shocked and saddened by the news of the assassination of three Kurdish women politicians in Paris. We send condolences and our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan and Leyla Soylemez, and to the Kurdish community for their loss. We will continue to monitor…
Kurdish women activists assassinated in Paris
KT News and Comment: Kurds around the world are shocked at the news that three Kurdish women – including Sakine Cansiz, a co-founder of the PKK – were shot dead in Paris last night. The bodies of the three women were found inside the Kurdish Information Centre in the centre of Paris. The other two…
