On the night between 9 and 10 January 2013, Kurdish activists Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan (Rojbîn) and Leyla Saylemez were murdered in the premises of the Kurdistan Information Center in Paris, coldly executed.

CDK-F has issued a call to all activists to join the demonstration to be held in Paris on Sunday 9 January, the 8th anniversary of the killings. The demonstration will leave from the Gare du Nord at 2 pm.

Many evidences revealed by the investigation, as well as documents leaked have established that the murderer, Ömer Güney, arrested a few days after the killings, had acted on behalf of the Turkish secret services (MIT). The investigation also revealed, in an undeniable manner, that he was a member of the Gray Wolves movement.

The trial was delayed and the killer died of a serious illness, on 17 December 2016. CDK-F said in a statement: “The French justice missed a crucial opportunity to judge, finally, a political crime committed on French territory. The promise of the government at that time, to shed light on these assassinations, was quickly forgotten. Always anxious to preserve their relations with Turkey, the French authorities did not even have the decency to receive the families of the victims, nor the representatives of the Kurdish community.”

The CDK-F statement continued: “By maintaining impunity for these heinous crimes, France allowed Erdogan to continue his Islamist and fascist infiltration on French territory, through the instrumentalization of mosques, the creation of AKP subsidiaries and the spread of the panturque ideology.”

The statement added: “By continuing to criminalize Kurdish political activists, through prosecution or aberrant administrative measures, France is only serving the interests of Turkish Islamo-fascism and strengthening Erdogan's position.

Following a complaint filed in March 2018 by the families of the three Kurdish activists, based in particular on revelations by MIT agents, a new investigating judge was appointed to the case. We expect French justice to finally have the courage to judge and condemn the sponsors of these political assassinations.”

The CDK-F ended its statement by remarking that “it is not enough to ban the Gray Wolves or to threaten Turkey with sanctions that never materialise. If France wants to fight against the expansion of fascism and Turkish political Islam, it must first of all judge the crimes committed by the Turkish regime on its national territory. This is the first, fundamental step to stop to Erdogan and to stop impunity.”