Questions - Amed Dicle
Questions - Amed Dicle
Three Kurdish woman activists Sakine Cansýz, Fidan Doðan and Leyla Söylemez were killed in Paris. The killings happened on a street near the Paris Gare du Nord, one of the most crowded and closely guarded streets in the French capital. In addition, the Kurdistan Information Centre is under continuous police control. The files of some formerly arrested Kurdish politicians had revealed the fact that the Centre had been monitored at any moment.
Fidan Doðan, Paris representative of the KNK, made a telephone conversation with a friend of hers at around 13:00 on Wednesday afternoon. In her last speech on the phone, Doðan says that she was still in the office and that she would be home in the evening. Doðan's friends who went to her office when she didn't answer her phone till late hours in the night, saw blood shedding from under the office door. They entered and saw the dead bodies of three women: Cansýz and Doðan have been shot on the head and Söylemez on the head and the stomach. A silencer was used in the armed attack, according to the initial reports coming through. French police has announced that the three women fell victim to a very professional execution.
Here are some questions concerning the armed attack against the Kurdish activists;
1- The execution of three women in the 'safest' area of Paris is not an ordinary incident. The perpetrators must have been aware of this truth and acted in consideration of it.
2- Sakine Cansýz was the single woman alive among the co-founders of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party). Cansýz is a revolutionary woman known for her resistance against torture in Diyarbakýr prison in the period of 12 September 1980 military coup in Turkey.
3- AKP supporter papers, such as Yeni Þafak, reported the news as an internal execution, yet before an official statement has been made by French police or autopsy has been performed on the victims. This is a point worthy of consideration.
4- Why did the attack target women and those in Europe? The fact that Sakine Cansýz was a woman co-founder of the PKK shows that the attack was aimed at the ideological spirit of the organization. From this point of view, the killings were obviously carried out on the basis of a professionally planned purpose. The news the Turkish media has reported using as a source the state Anadolu Ajansý (Anatolian News Agency) give clues as to how the incident will be discussed from now on.
5- The killing of ten Kurdish guerrillas and three senior European officials of the PKK came following the statements of Turkish Prime Minister Erdoðan who had said that “We will arrest you wherever we find you”. It seems both attacks are a follow-up of this statement.
Fidan Doðan, Paris representative of the KNK, made a telephone conversation with a friend of hers at around 13:00 on Wednesday afternoon. In her last speech on the phone, Doðan says that she was still in the office and that she would be home in the evening. Doðan's friends who went to her office when she didn't answer her phone till late hours in the night, saw blood shedding from under the office door. They entered and saw the dead bodies of three women: Cansýz and Doðan have been shot on the head and Söylemez on the head and the stomach. A silencer was used in the armed attack, according to the initial reports coming through. French police has announced that the three women fell victim to a very professional execution.
Here are some questions concerning the armed attack against the Kurdish activists;
1- The execution of three women in the 'safest' area of Paris is not an ordinary incident. The perpetrators must have been aware of this truth and acted in consideration of it.
2- Sakine Cansýz was the single woman alive among the co-founders of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party). Cansýz is a revolutionary woman known for her resistance against torture in Diyarbakýr prison in the period of 12 September 1980 military coup in Turkey.
3- AKP supporter papers, such as Yeni Þafak, reported the news as an internal execution, yet before an official statement has been made by French police or autopsy has been performed on the victims. This is a point worthy of consideration.
4- Why did the attack target women and those in Europe? The fact that Sakine Cansýz was a woman co-founder of the PKK shows that the attack was aimed at the ideological spirit of the organization. From this point of view, the killings were obviously carried out on the basis of a professionally planned purpose. The news the Turkish media has reported using as a source the state Anadolu Ajansý (Anatolian News Agency) give clues as to how the incident will be discussed from now on.
5- The killing of ten Kurdish guerrillas and three senior European officials of the PKK came following the statements of Turkish Prime Minister Erdoðan who had said that “We will arrest you wherever we find you”. It seems both attacks are a follow-up of this statement.
