The emotion has won over the Kurdish community very present in the neighborhood where a 69-year-old man opened fire on Friday near a Kurdish cultural center killing three Kurds – two men and a woman – and injuring three other people. The Kurds of Paris spontaneously gathered to express their sorrow, near the place of the murderous shootings, before venting their anger and opposing the police, with in mind the memory of the triple assassination of Kurds of the PKK there is nine, nearby.
The emotion is all the greater as the victims were known to the Kurdish community.
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A feminist activist and fighter against Daesh
The woman killed is Emine Kara. She was a leader of the Kurdish Women’s Movement in France, according to the Kurdish Democratic Council in France (CDK-F). She applied for political asylum “rejected by the French authorities”, specified Friday in front of the press the spokesman of the movement, Agit Polat. According to the information collected by “The World”, she fought and campaigned for thirty years in the four parts of Kurdistan, in Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran. Also according to the daily, which quotes another CDK-F spokesperson, Berivan Firat, she took up arms and fought the Islamic State during the reconquest of Rakka by Kurdish forces and the international coalition.
“She came to France because she had been injured in the fight against Daesh (Islamic State). She had come to France to be treated. She is also a woman who fought for the protection of France. Unfortunately, France could not protect her. clarified to France News, Act Polat. Emine Kara had planned to appeal the Ofpra decision to obtain her refugee status.
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Two active activists
The two deceased men are Abdulrahman Kizil, “an ordinary Kurdish citizen” who frequented “daily” association, and Mir Perwer, a Kurdish artist recognized as a political refugee and “prosecuted in Turkey for his art”according to the CDK-F.
Mir Perwer was a young singer, songwriter and composer. He “wrote texts in Kurdish that disturbed Erdogan’s system”the Turkish President, said Berivan Firat to “TF1”. “He faced a trial, imprisonment, and had to take refuge in France. He was a political refugee. He was killed while he was eating in the restaurant opposite the Kurdish Democratic Center”he said again.
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According to “Le Monde”, Abdulrahman Kizil was a “old regular at the cultural center”. ” He used to come early in the morning, often until evening. Berivan Firat again assured TF1 “He was an active member”told the Agit Polat television channel. “He was in all the action. This man has dedicated his life to the Kurdish struggle”.
