KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) Executive Council Co-Presidency released a statement regarding the case on the murder of PKK founding member Sakine Cansız, KNK Paris Representative Fidan Doğan and Kurdish Youth Movement member Leyla Şaylemez in French capital Paris on January 9, 2013. The gunman, Ömer Güney died last week, short before the first hearing in his trial which was set to take place next month.

Describing the death or killing in prison of the murderer of the three Kurdish women as scandalous for the French judiciary, KCK said: “This incident, which came short before the beginning of the trial, makes Güney's death suspicious. It is of high probability that he has been killed in prison in order to prevent his speaking at court and the emergence of the truths during the course of the trial.”

KCK Executive Council pointed out that Sakine, Fidan and Leyla were killed by MİT on the order of the AKP government, recalling that the assignment of murderer Ömer Güney by MİT was proven by documents.

The statement continued: "In 2012, written and mass media repeatedly published reports arguing that PKK would be eliminated in the event that around 20-30 administrators of its were killed. It is thought-provoking that the French state and judiciary postponed the appearance of the murderer in court although they knew this truth. It is understood that the political powers and judiciary of the French state did not want the exposure of the open crime committed by the AKP government, which would otherwise result in the emergence of a deep crisis between Turkey and the European Union, and bring the expulsion of Turkey from EU institutions into question. The French state did not want the exposure of such a case for the sake of its interests, and connived at the killing of the murderer. In consideration of the importance of this murder case, it must be expressed clearly that the murderer has been killed."

KCK said they had no doubts that the Turkish state and MİT were behind these murders, for which it held the AKP government responsible.

KCK continued, criticizing French authorities for their failure to bring out this truth -and thus the reality of Turkey and the AKP- into the open, stressing that such an exposure would also reveal what sort of a danger Turkey posed for not only the Kurdish people but for all humanity as well.

"By hindering the official exposure of this truth, the French state has obstructed the emergence of the character of the Turkish state. Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan, Leyla Şaylemez were thus shot by the French state and judiciary once again. The killing of the murderer before the exposure of the truth makes France accomplice to this murder."

KCK called upon the Kurdish people to not give up the struggle in order for justice to be done and for the case not to be closed, emphasizing that an official exposure and trial of those behind Ömer Güney and execution of justice would deter further murders of this kind in French and European soil.

"Exposure of the truth on these murders is important for not only the Kurdish people but the French people and democratic forces as well", added the statement.