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A joint commemoration will be held for three people who died on 23 December during an armed attack against a Kurdish cultural centre and Kurdish businesses in Paris, Mezopotamya News Agency reported on Saturday.
The commemoration will be organised on 3 January at a venue named Palace de Villiers, addressed 12 bis Avenue des Entrepreneurs, 95400 Villiers-le-Bel, it said.
Following the commemoration, the bodies of the three victims will be send to northern Iraq and Turkey for their funerals.
Emine Kara (Evîn Goyî), a member of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) executive committee and a prominent women’s rights activities, who was killed in the Paris attack, will be buried in Mexmur camp in northern Iraq where most members of her family have been living.
The bodies of the two other victims, musician Mîr Perwer (Mehmet Şirin Aydın) and political activist Abdurrahman Kızıl, will be sent to Turkey. Perwer will be buried in Muş and Kızıl in Kars, both provinces in eastern Turkey.
The European Kurdish Democratic Societies Congress (KCDK-E) and the European Kurdish Women’s Movement (TJK-E) in a statement on Friday called on Kurdish people to join the commemoration news week in Paris.
“It is time to give a historical response from Europe, particularly from France, to the fascist Turkish state, which fears the organised power of the Kurdish women and people together with our friends. It is also a historical role for us to unravel the complicity the French government covered up 10 years ago,” the two organisations said, referring to a similar attack in 2013 against a Kurdish information centre in Paris.
Three female Kurdish activists, including one of the founders of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, died in the armed attack in 2013 carried out by a Turkish gunman who was allegedly linked to the Turkish intelligence. The case remains unsolved, while the attacker died in prison in 2016.
On 7 January, the Kurdish community in Paris will also organise a march to protest the murders that took place in 2013 and 2022.
