In Paris, Thousands Raise Voice Over 3 Killings

Thousands of people gathered in Paris on Saturday to condemn the killings of 3 Kurdish politicians, demanding the police investigation to find the murderers immediately.

Hundreds of protestors who came to Paris from various European cities crowded in Paris' Gare de l'Est from the early hours of the cold Saturday morning.

Kurdish Information Office, located in approximate with Gare de l'Est, marked as the scene where PKK co-founder Sakine Cansız, KNK Paris Representative Fidan Doğan and activist Leyla Söylemez were cruelly murdered on January 9.

According to Firat News Agency, several organizations from Turkey and France attended the protests. Notable protestor organizations included KCK, PKK, PJAK, PYD, Peace and Democracy Party. Several protestors were observed carrying flags in the traditional Kurdish patterns of yellow-red-green belonging to Kurdish organizations.

The protest walk ended up at Colonel Fabien Square where demonstrators raised their voices demanding the murder investigation to be completed immediately.

"We need a proper and serious investigation"

One of the Paris protestors was Selahattin Demirtaş, Turkey's Peace and Democracy Party co-chair, who underscored the importance of dialogue over anger and revenge. "This is why establishing peace is very hard. We should not surrender to anger and revenge. We need to continue the negotiation process with patience, courage and wisdom."

Demirtaş also criticized PM Erdogan who urged the French president to account for why he used to meet one of these "terrorists" in the Kurdish Information Office. "This is not what a PM ought to say at this moment. These people are not terrorists. The slain women were politicians."

Gültan Kışanak, other co-chair of Peace and Democracy Party, claimed that the real target of these murders was indeed Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of PKK. "The French government should investigate the case in a thorough manner. France owes this to Kurdish people." (AS)