The Basque Parliament has condemned today, with the votes of Euskal Herria Bildu y Partito Nacionalista Vasco, the killing in Paris of Sakine Cansız, a co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Fidan Doğan, representative of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) in Paris, and Leyla Şaylemez, member of the Kurdish youth movement on 9 January.
The original text presented by Euskal Herria Bildu addressed three main points. Besides condemning the three deaths and show solidarity with the families of the three militants and Kurdish people, it asks Turkey to commit to a negotiated solution to end the "suffering the people of Kurdistan and Turkey have endured for so many year". It also calls for the recognition of the Kurdish national reality and urges the Council of Europe to intervene in the conflict.
The text approved today reads that the Basque Parliament will send to the Turkish consulate in Bilbao its favourable position towards the dialogue between the Turkish government and the representatives of the Kurdish people. Furthermore it states that this process "should end in the recognition of the national reality of Kurdistan and a committment to respect the human rights of all people as well as assure the democratic principles of all the parties involved in the conflict".
The Partido Popular, and Socialist Party have voted against the text although they have condemned the executions in Paris. They did not want to get involved, they said, with how this process should be conducted.

Last week the Turkish ambassador in Madrid had sent a written letter to the Basque parliament asking how could they discuss such a document.