It is now nearly 23 months since PKK founder member Sakine Cansız, KNK member Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez from the Kurdish youth movement were murdered in Paris on 9 January 2013. The weekly Wednesday demonstration calling for justice and the forces behind the murder to be exposed began this week in front of the Democratic Kurdish Community Centre.

Algerian dissidents and SKB members supported the protest march on which photos of Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez were carried and the slogans: “Jin, Jiyan Azadi” (women, life, freedom), “Murdering Turkish state” and “We are all Sakine, Fidan and Leyla” were shouted.

Leaflets were distributed on the march detailing the Paris murders and the background to them as it made its way to the Kurdistan Information Office, where the murders took place.

On arrival at the office at 147 Rue Lafayette a minute’s silence for those who have fallen in Kurdistan and other struggles was observed. A statement prepared in French by the Kurdish Women’s Movement was read out, demanding the French authorities expose those responsible for the murders.

The statement stressed that if countries remained silent about who had given the order for the murders for economic and commercial reasons they would be implicated in them. Following the reading of the statement the protest ended with slogans and ululations.