Police: 3 Kurdish women shot dead in Paris

PARIS. January 10. KAZINFORM Three Kurdish women were found dead with gunshots to the head early Thursday, police in Paris said, in an unexplained act of violence that has shocked the Kurdish community.
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French Interior Minister Manuel Valls told reporters in Paris the three women had been "without doubt executed" and described the killings as "totally unacceptable."

The bodies were found about 2 a.m. in the Information Center for Kurdistan in Paris, in a central district of the capital, a police representative said.

A criminal investigation is under way, according to police. They have not yet confirmed the names or ages of the three women, Kazinform quotes CNN.

However, the main pro-Kurdish political party in Turkey, the Peace and Democracy Party, or BDP, identified the three victims as Sakine Cansiz, Leyla Sonmez and Fidan Dogan.

Cansiz is widely reported to be a co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which is viewed as a terror organization by the United States, European Union and others.

Valls said that Dogan was the head of the Information Center for Kurdistan and that she was known to many in the community through her work.

Dogan was also the Paris representative of the Kurdistan National Congress, or KNK, a Brussels-based political group.

Akif Rizgar Wan, the British representative of the KNK, told CNN he had known Dogan for over a decade and had last seen her in December.

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