Anniversary of PKK activists assassinated in Paris

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Today, January 11, 2014, anniversary of the martyrdom of the three PKK activists Sakina Janz, Fidan Dogan, and Layla Soilemerz was held in Sulaimani Palace Hall.



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PARIS,— Thousands of Kurdish demonstrators from around Europe marched in Paris on Saturday to call for a speedier investigation into the murder of three Kurdish activists a year ago.

Sakine Cansiz, a founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the early 1980s, and two other Kurdish women activists were found shot dead in Paris in January 2013.

Carrying banners reading "Turkish state the murderer, France the accomplice", demonstrators accused the Turkish state of being behind the murders and criticized the French judiciary for what they said was the slow pace of the investigation.

People came from France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, England by train, car, bus to meet in Paris Gare du Nord, around the corner from the Kurdistan Information Office where the three Kurdish women were killed, Firat news reported.

"Today it has been one year since the murder and we still have no answers to our all questions," Rezan, a Kurdish student living in France, told Reuters. She declined to give her family name.

The rally was attended, among others, by Sakine Cansiz mother and father and family members. Fidan Dogan's mother, father and brothers and sisters were also there. So were Leyla Şaylemez brothers and sisters.

Turkey's pro-Kurdish DTK party co-chair Aysel Tuğluk walked together with Kongra-Gel president Remzi Kartal.

Chief suspect Omer Guney, a Turkish immigrant in France, was placed under formal investigation within about a week of the triple murder.

Sources told Reuters in October that French investigators had collected evidence about Guney's connections to Turkey,www.Ekurd.net and the magistrate in charge of the case was about to lodge a formal appeal for information to Turkey.

Turkey has denied any involvement in the murders, suggesting instead they were related to internal disputes in the PKK.

"The investigation is not making progress, we want justice," said Ali, another demonstrator in Paris, who also declined to give his family name.

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