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Shooting in Paris: funeral of a Kurd murdered in Iraq

2023-01-05T12:17:25.193Z


The funeral of a Kurd killed with two other activists last December in Paris took place this Thursday, January 5 in Kurdistan of Iraq, a...


The funeral of a Kurd killed with two other militants last December in Paris took place this Thursday, January 5 in Kurdistan of Iraq, a ceremony with political overtones organized in the presence of the PKK, a group considered terrorist by Ankara and the European Union (EU).

The remains of Emine Kara, a Turkish Kurd close to the separatists of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), arrived at dawn by plane in Suleimaniyeh, the second city of Iraqi Kurdistan, an autonomous region in northern Iraq.

The "martyrdom" Emine Kara

According to an AFP correspondent, the coffin was then transferred to the Hajj Sour mosque, where it was wrapped in the flag of the political wing of the PKK, which has rear bases in Iraqi Kurdistan regularly targeted by army raids. Turkish.

In the crowd outside the mosque, relatives of Emine Kara chanted slogans in praise of "

the martyr Evin Goyi

", the nom de guerre of the militant of the Kurdish cause.

Some waved flags bearing the portrait of Abdullah Öcalan, the historic leader of the PKK imprisoned in Turkey.

On December 23, Abdurrahman Kizil, Mir Perwer (Kurdish singer and political refugee) and Emine Kara (head of the Kurdish Women's Movement in France, activist for more than 30 years and having fought the jihadist group Islamic State in Syria) were killed in Paris in front of a cultural center of their community.

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The alleged shooter said he wanted to "

murder migrants

".

According to relatives of the Kurdish activist who lived in France, the burial was to take place during the day in the Qandil mountains, a region of Iraqi Kurdistan close to Iran.

Emine Kara "

had been injured in the back in the fighting in Kobané (northern Syria)

" against the jihadists, his brother Ismaël al-Hajj told AFP during the funeral.

She had gone to France in 2020 for treatment.

»

Like many Kurds - in Paris and Kurdistan - he refuses to believe in the shooter's racist motives alone.

According to him, the attack in Paris is a "

terrorist act perpetrated by the Turkish intelligence services with the help of their French counterparts

" because of the "

militancy

" of his sister and her "

fight against the injustice suffered

" by the Kurds, a stateless people of 25 to 35 million scattered between Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey.

Source: lefigaro

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