Riseup4Rojava and DefendKurdistan issued an urgent call for solidarity after the Paris killings. 

The statement said: "The Kurdish Ahmet Kaya Cultural Association in central Paris became the target of an armed attack. A gunman fired several shots at people in front of the Kurdish community center, in a Kurdish restaurant and a barbershop. So far, three people have lost their lives and there are numerous wounded. Only through the  determined and courageous efforts of eyewitnesses, was the assassin overpowered and handed over to the police."

The statement underlined that "there are many indications that the assassination  was not a coincidence. Only a few meters away from the site of the massacre, a contract killer of the Turkish secret service murdered the three Kurdish revolutionaries, Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez, almost ten years ago. It is more than suspicious that a meeting to prepare this year's demonstration in memory of the  three murdered activists was held at the exact time of the crime. Only recently, representatives of Turkish fascism had repeatedly threatened to specifically attack and  murder activists and sympathizers of the Kurdish Freedom Movement."

The statement continued: "For us, the bloody attack cannot be seen separately from the general war waged by Turkish fascism and  its allies. It is the result of an anti-Kurdish policy, in Turkey but also here in Europe, and it is the continuation of the contract killing of 2013. The Turkish war of  aggression in South Kurdistan and Rojava, which is mercilessly led with air strikes, drones and chemical weapons and also yesterday's house searches in the Federal  Republic of Germany, the arrest of the Kurdish politician Tahir Kocer by German security forces and the mass arrests of Kurdish politicians in Turkey this morning, are  part of an anti-Kurdish extermination concept, in whose last consequence the attack of Paris stands. The fact that the European states support this concept was proven once again today by the French police with their excessive and shameless attacks on peaceful demonstrators in Marseille and Paris."

The statement underlined that "our Kurdish comrades have called for a mass demonstration today at 12pm at the Place de la Republique in Paris. As the networks Riseup4Rojava & Defend Kurdistan, we call on all  internationalists and anti-fascists to stand with the Kurdish people and take to the streets of Paris tomorrow!

For us, these attacks can only mean one thing: to fight  even stronger and all the more determined. This cruel attack, the criminalization, persecution and murder of activists of the Kurdish freedom movement, will not  remain unanswered. We know who is responsible!"