On 9 January 2013, in Paris, 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. 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 friends are marching in Paris, the capital of France, to protest against the two massacres and the ongoing impunity and to reaffirm the demand for justice and transparency. The demonstration is taking place on the first anniversary of the second massacre.

The crowd started gathering at the Ahmet Kaya Cultural Center, where the massacre took place, and at Gare du Nord, the starting point of the march, from the early hours of the morning.

The municipality of the 10th arrondissement of Paris hung the photographs of Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez, who were murdered on January 9, 2013, and activists who were murdered last year, on the municipality building.

The march is attended by Alexandra Cordebard, Mayor of the 10th District of Paris, Rémi Féraud, Senator of the Socialist Party in Paris, Ian Brossat, Spokesperson of the Communist Party of France and Senator of Paris, Pascal Torre, President of the France-Kurdistan Solidarity Association, Danielle Simonnet, Deputy of the French Indomitable Movement in Paris, Julien Bayou, Deputy of the Green Party in Paris, François Béchiequ, 19th Deputy Mayor of Paris.

Local and national press from France are also following the march.