On 9 January 2013, Sakine Cansız, one of the founders of the PKK, Fidan Doğan, the KNK representative in Paris, and Leyla Şaylemez, a member of the youth movement, were murdered by the Turkish intelligence service MIT in Paris. On the tenth anniversary of this massacre, another massacre was carried out on 23 December 2022, claiming the lives of Emine Kara (Evîn Goyî), member of the Executive Council of the KCK, Mîr Perwer (Mehmet Şirin Aydın) from the Kurdish cultural movement and long-time activist Abdurrahman Kızıl in front of the Ahmet Kaya Cultural Center in the French capital. Kurds and their companions will take to the streets in Paris on 6 January 2024 to protest against the two massacres and the ongoing impunity.

The Congress of Democratic Societies of Kurdistan in Europe (KCDK-E) released a statement calling for mobilization from all over Europe to protest against the Paris massacres and claim the martyrs.

The KCDK-E statement on Wednesday reads as follows:

"11 years have passed since the dastardly murder of 3 Kurdish women revolutionaries Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez by the murderous MIT (Turkish intelligence service) of the genocidal Turkish state on 9 January 2013.

Again, no light has been shed on the massacre of on 23 December 2022, when Emine Kara (Evîn Goyî), Mîr Perwer (Mehmet Şirin Aydın) and Abdurrahman Kızıl were martyred.

The French state continues to face the responsibilities of both massacres, which remain as a black stain on it. The French state and judiciary must shed light on these two massacres and the Turkish state must be tried in international courts.

Although 11 years have passed since the murder of Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez in Paris on 9 January 2013 by the Turkish MIT, our search for justice continues.

Efforts continue to cover up this planned murder. All the traces and all the statements made afterward have gone down in history as a planned massacre organised by the triangle of Ankara, France and Europe.

After this massacre in the heart of Paris, all investigations carried out by French prosecutors clearly pointed to MIT and Ankara. The investigation, which lasted for years and was extended over time by the French state, has been deliberately prolonged until today and has not been brought to a conclusion.

Despite the years-long search for justice, neither Europe nor France, where the incident took place, took a step forward, and the massacre was covered up by declaring that the murderer Ömer Güney died in a hospital in Paris on 17 December 2016 in a shady manner. This dastardly massacre, which took place in a place where French intelligence was in full swing, was again unlawfully removed from the file by the French state.

For 11 years, even though the file was reopened thanks to the protests of Kurdish women and people of Kurdistan and pressure of public opinion demanding justice, it has since been carried out with the decision of ‘confidentiality’ as a 'state secret'.

Although 11 years have passed since the murder of the three Kurdish women revolutionaries Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez, who are the symbols of our struggle, France has not shed light on this triple murder committed on its own soil, and the fascist Turkish state conspired and perpetrated the second Paris Massacre on 23 December 2022.

Since 9 January 2013, the search for justice has continued with the legal struggle carried out by the Kurds, Kurdish women, European women's movements and their friends, and with continuous protests, keeping the massacre on the agenda in the field of diplomacy

The search for justice and actions in Europe will be persistently continued so that the murderers do not go unpunished and all the forces behind it are revealed. We will not allow these massacres carried out by the dictator Erdogan regime to go unjudged and unpunished.

These two massacres, which are an international law scandal, must be clarified as soon as possible, criminals must be tried in international courts. The French government must immediately meet with the families and apologise to the families and the Kurdish people for these massacres that took place on its territory.

The Paris massacres on 9 January 2013 and 23 December 2022 clearly targeted the Kurdish freedom struggle and resistance in the person of Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan, Leyla Şaylemez, Emine Kara (Evîn Goyî), Mîr Perwer (Mehmet Şirin Aydın) and Abdurrahman Kızıl.

As KCDK-E, we call on our people, women, children, old, young, as a whole, to mobilise from all over Europe and fill the squares in tens of thousands to protest against the Paris massacres and to claim our martyrs in the central march to be held in Paris on 6 January this year under the leadership of TJK-E."