Mathilde Panot and Olivier Faure in particular ask the French and European authorities “to ensure reinforced protection of the places of militancy of the Kurdish people”.
Several left-wing leaders urged on Thursday to “give the Kurds the protection they deserve”, after the assassination of three nationals in Paris on December 23.
Although the suspect, William M., admitted his “pathological hatred of foreigners”, “this act is much more than a racist crime committed by a racist”, believe the signatories of a column published in The worldincluding Mathilde Panot (LFI), Olivier Faure (PS), Marine Tondelier (EELV) and Fabien Roussel (PCF).
This text – also signed by Agit Polat, spokesperson for the Kurdish Democratic Council of France, and other associations – points to the role of Turkey in the “persecution” of this stateless people.
“The Turkish intelligence services (MIT), with the help of the Gray Wolves (Turkish ultranationalist movement, editor’s note), deploy powerful means to destabilize, track down and try to silence all their political opponents”.
Kurds ‘delivered to Turkey’
“After having cowardly abandoned the Kurds in the hands of Turkey and Russia in Syria, even though they and they had just fought a merciless battle against Daesh”, the European States treat them as a “variable of adjustment of the diplomatic relations with Turkey”, criticize these left-wing leaders.
They point in particular to the cooperation of the European secret services with their Turkish counterparts, under which “Kurdish opponents are regularly delivered to Turkey”.
“That’s enough! It is urgent to finally provide the Kurds with the justice and protection they deserve”, declare the signatories.
They ask the French and European authorities “to ensure reinforced protection of the places of militancy of the Kurdish people” or even “to remove the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) from the list of terrorist organizations”.
