The Coordination of PAJK (Party of Free Women in Kurdistan) released a statement paying tribute to PKK co-founder Sakine Cansız (Sara), Fidan Doğan (Rojbîn) and Leyla Şaylemez (Ronahî) who were murdered in Paris by a contract killer of the Turkish secret service (MIT) on 9 January 2013.

In the statement published on its website, the PAJK Coordination said the following:

"We will turn 2024 into a year in which great developments will take place in terms of women's freedom and the physical freedom of Leader Apo (Abdullah Öcalan) will be achieved. No power and conspiracy will prevent us from achieving these lofty goals."

"We commemorate comrade Sakine Cansız, the symbol of resistance of our struggle, who was murdered in Paris on 9 January 2013 by a despicable conspiracy, and our friends Rojbîn and Ronahî, militant cadres of our women's movement, with love, respect and gratitude on the 11th anniversary of their martyrdom. We also commemorate with respect the Kurdish artist Mîr Perwer and our esteemed patriot Abdurrahman Kızıl and Evîn-Emine Kara, one of our pioneers, who were martyred in the second Paris massacre, and we reiterate our vow to hold these massacres to account. We promise that we will definitely expose this dark conspiracy against the rare pioneers of our struggle. We bow with respect before the memory of our great martyrs and once again condemn the massacres in Paris.

While the massacre of our comrade Sara-Sakine, a founding member of our party PKK, and the living history and pioneer of our women's struggle, along with Rojbîn and Ronahî still hurt our hearts, we experienced the second Paris massacre. Since 2013, the people and women of Kurdistan have been resisting on the streets for the elucidation of the Paris massacre in all its aspects and have been struggling to reveal the truth.

Instead of shedding light on the inhuman massacre committed by the Turkish state, the French authorities almost paved the way for the second Paris massacre on 23 December. While everything is very clear and the perpetrators are obvious, the confidentiality order imposed on the file was intended to cover up the dirty accounts and relations in these massacres.

It is not accidental that Sakine Cansız, who took part in the grouping and establishment of our party, Fidan Doğan, who carried out diplomatic work, and Leyla Şaylemez, one of the pioneers of the youth, were chosen. At a time when the dialogue with Rêber Apo on a solution was being developed, the targeting of three women representing three generations of the women's liberation struggle, especially Sakine Cansız, who had become the symbol of free women's identity with her resistance and struggle, which Rêber Apo called "my biggest project", was carried out on the basis of a conspiracy. The aim was to hit Rêber Apo in the strongest and most crucial place. From the first years of the struggle to becoming a party, from becoming an army to paradigmatic change and the construction of the Democratic Confederalism system, comrade Sakine walked with Rêber Apo without hesitation and always expressed her belief in the development of the democratic system. In a sense, this massacre was a decision to eliminate the path to a democratic solution and to put the denial-extermination policy back into operation in all its dimensions.

It is noteworthy that from that day until today, the policy of annihilation-denial has been implemented in the most intensive manner and fascist practices have been put into practice with a recklessness incomparable to any other period. The isolation imposed on Rêber Apo has been aggravated as never before, and methods that have no place in Turkey and international laws have been put into practice. While the planners and executors of the Paris massacre were not exposed, attempts were made to drop the case by eliminating the shooter and to make the perpetrators forgotten in the eyes of the public.

The fascism against our people and women pioneers in Kurdistan was ignored by the same power centres and the same policy still continues in full swing. The same conspiratorial groups played deaf and dumb while resilient women were massacred, unlimited attacks against everything sacred to the Kurds developed and chemical weapons were used against the guerrilla. Our relentless struggle against this mentality, which normalizes the massacres in Paris and tries to make them forgotten, will continue at any cost. Our struggle will continue uninterruptedly under all circumstances to expose the Turkish State and its supporters who carried out these massacres and to hold them accountable before history.

The fact that the shooter of the Paris massacre is dead (or somehow eliminated) will not be enough to close the case. It has been revealed by documents that the shooter was a Turkish state intelligence officer and carried out the massacre in an organised manner in cooperation with other institutions and forces. The effort of the French judiciary to close the file reveals its complicity in this massacre.

As the Kurdistan Women's Freedom Party (PAJK), we will not forget this massacre and will not let it be forgotten. The Kurdish people, women and their friends will definitely shed light on this dark reality with the stance of struggle they have and will put forward.

Leader Apo did not describe the Paris massacre as "the second Dersim massacre" for nothing. Because in the person of comrade Sara, our Leader, our Kurdistan women's liberation struggle and the values it created were targeted. At a time when the women's movement was waging a very effective struggle against the male-dominated system in four parts of Kurdistan and abroad, it was wanted to be prevented and liquidated through such a massacre. At a time when Kurdish women met with the women of the world and created excitement with their struggle, the second Paris massacre was carried out on 23 December 2022 on the basis of the same dirty aims and objectives. These massacres were carried out with the NATO-ratified Gladio’s partnership with the AKP-MHP fascist regime. It is clear evidence that there is a great fear of our women's liberation struggle and that the international conspiracy mechanism against it is committed through the Turkish fascist state.

The Paris massacres have caused deep pain and great anger among women, our people and friends. Our comrade Sara, the living history of our struggle, became legendary among our people for her stance against the torturers. She spat in the face of the executioner and insisted on the struggle until the end. She engraved the invincibility of the will in golden letters in our history. With her stance representing the values created by Besê, Zarife and many other women who paid the ultimate price, she has become a universal value of freedom for the women and peoples of the Middle East as much as the people of Kurdistan. She has become an immortal source that unites women not only with her life, which will be the subject of epics, but also with her martyrdom. She became a legendary pioneer who devoted her life to the struggle for truth and did not submit to the oppression of the tyrant. This reality has become an indispensable principle in our women's freedom struggle.

In this sense, the reality of Sara-Sakine Cansız has been the invincible essence and guiding principle of our Women's Freedom Movement, the Kurdish Freedom Movement. For this reason, Sakine Cansız means life and freedom!  It means fighting in the most glorious way to build a new life with women's consciousness in the land of goddesses. Thousands of women who have taken over this legacy are fighting in the mountains of Kurdistan, raising the struggle in the plains, cities and all over the world with the same spirit and claim.

Sara-Sakine Cansız, who has become a monument of resistance, is a call for all women seeking freedom. It is an invitation to struggle and to contract with life on the basis of freedom. It is our basic perspective of struggle to fight like Sara, to shout freedom courageously in the face of fascism, to build a free life in the homeland of goddesses. We will surely overcome all darkness and conspiracies with Comrade Sara's Apoist militant attitude. The will and proud resistance of the Saras, Evîns, Rojbîns, Ronahîs, Sêvês, Fatmas and Pakizês invite us, their successors, to a greater war. On this basis, all women who have a passion and claim for freedom against fascism and the male-dominated system must embrace the struggle with a spirit of mobilization. We have great reasons for a historical reckoning. We are stronger and more organized than ever to succeed and crown the dreams of our comrades with victory.

We will enhance with all our strength the legacy left to us with great sacrifice by our martyrs who condemned the enemy to defeat by the invincible Apoist spirit. With this determination, we will turn 2024 into a year in which great developments will take place in terms of women's freedom and the physical freedom of Leader Apo will be achieved. No power and conspiracy will prevent us from achieving these lofty goals. Just as our comrade Sara spat in the face of the oppressor's cruelty and betrayal in the Amed dungeon, brought the enemy to his knees with her resistance and condemned him to defeat! Victory and freedom will definitely be for those who resist, fascism and conspiratorial mentality will be defeated!"