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                     3 Kurdish Activists Shot Dead in Paris

   by VOA News

   French police say three Kurdish activists, including a founding member
   of the PKK militant group, have been shot to death in Paris, in what
   the French interior minister has termed an "assassination."
   Police said Thursday that the bodies of three women were found with
   bullet wounds in the early morning hours in a Kurdish information
   center. One of the victims was identified as Sakine Cansiz, one of the
   founding members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, a group
   fighting for greater Kurdish autonomy in Turkey.
   One of the other two victims worked at the information center, and the
   third has been identified as a "young activist." Police say they have
   opened a murder investigation.
   ''The director of the information center told reporters the last time
   the women were seen alive was midday on Wednesday. Friends of the
   victims went to the center looking for the women after their calls went
   unreturned.
   French Interior Minister Manuel Valls visited the scene of the crime
   Thursday and said the deaths are "unacceptable."
   "I came here, to this neighborhood where three women were slain,
   killed, doubtless executed," he said. "This is a very grave matter and
   this explains my presence. This is unacceptable. The investigation is
   only starting under the authority of the prosecutor's office and the
   anti-terrorist forces are involved to shed all possible light on this
   unacceptable act."
   Kurdish activists and exiles gathered at the information center
   Thursday, expressing solidarity with the chant "We are all PKK!" They
   also chanted slogans accusing the Turkish government of killing the
   women and accusing French President Francois Hollande of complying.
   The killings come on the heels of Turkish press reports claiming jailed
   Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan has reached an agreement with the
   Turkish government to end a 28-year Kurdish insurgency that has taken
   tens of thousands of lives in the nation's southeast.
   ''
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