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French prosecutors charge man with murder after killing of three Kurds in Paris

Judicial authorities in France charged a suspected gunman on Monday with last week's murder of three Kurds in the French capital. Hundreds of people marched in Paris to pay tribute to the victims. The Turkish foreign ministry on Monday summoned France's ambassador over "anti-Turkey propaganda".

Radio France Internationale

Turkey summons French ambassador after Paris shooting

Ankara expressed unease at PKK flags spotted during a march mourning the shooting deaths of three Kurds in Paris

Al Jazeera

Ankara summons French envoy over 'propaganda' after attack on Paris Kurds

Turkey on Monday summoned France's ambassador over "anti-Turkey propaganda" that it alleged French officials did little to stop following the killing of three Kurds in Paris.

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Suspect charged with deadly attack at Kurdish cultural centre in Paris

A French pensioner suspected of fatally shooting three Kurds in Paris has been charged with murder and remanded into custody, a judicial source said Monday

France 24

Suspect in deadly attack on Paris Kurds transferred to psychiatric unit

A French man suspected of shooting dead three Kurdish people in central Paris has confessed to a “pathological” hatred of foreigners, the Paris prosecutor said Sunday, a day after the suspect was transferred to a psychiatric unit.

France 24

Kurdish Protesters Clash with Police in Paris

Clashes broke out for a second day in Paris on Saturday between police and members of the Kurdish community angry at the killing on Friday of three members of their community. Cars were overturned, at least one vehicle was burned and small fires set alight near Republic Square, the traditional…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Prosecutors investigating racism as a motive in deadly attack on Paris Kurds

Paris prosecutors investigating a deadly shooting at a Kurdish cultural centre in Paris said Saturday they were examining a possible racist motive for the attack as Kurdish activists and anti-racism groups gathered in the French capital in protest at the killings.

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Kurdish protest over Paris shooting turns violent

Clashes broke out for a second day in Paris on Saturday between police and Kurdish protestors angry at the killing of three members of their community by a gunman.

Reuters

Kurds, antiracism groups gather after deadly Paris shooting

Kurdish activists, left-wing politicians and anti-racism groups are holding a protest in Paris after three people were killed at a Kurdish cultural center a day earlier

The Independent UK

Deadly attack on Kurds in Paris revives trauma of unsolved 2013 murders

Furious Kurdish demonstrators clashed with police in central Paris on Friday after three people were shot dead in a suspected racist attack on a community centre that revived the trauma of three unsolved murders many blame on Turkey.

France 24

Macron Denounces 'Odious Attack' Against Kurds

French President Emmanuel Macron denounced a Friday shooting at a Kurdish community center in Paris that left three people dead as "an odious attack." Three others were wounded in the shooting. "The Kurds in France have been the target of an odious attack in the heart of Paris," Macron wrote…

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘Kurds were clearly targeted’: Protests erupt in Paris after gunman kills three at cultural centre

Members of Kurdish community say shooting was terror attack as authorities probe motive, while activist warns: ‘We don’t feel defended by the French justice system’

The Independent UK

Clashes erupt in Paris after deadly attack at Kurdish centre

Clashes erupted in Paris on Friday as shocked members of the Kurdish community in Paris demanded justice after a deadly shooting attack killed three people at a Kurdish cultural centre.

France 24

3 people died when a shooter targeted a Kurdish cultural center in Paris

The Paris prosecutor said the suspect had been released from prison after attacking migrants living in tents, and that investigators are considering a possible racist motive for the shooting.

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The Independent UK

Economic pain, Turkish strikes drive Syrian Kurds to Europe

A growing number of Syrian Kurds are making the journey to Europe on a circuitous course that includes travel by car and plane across Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, then finally by boat to Spain

Reason

Conservative Cancel Culture Comes to Kurdistan

Religious Kurds used social media to shut down a rap concert—and they're swinging their weight around politics, too.

The Independent UK

Turkish strikes on US Kurd allies resonate in Ukraine war

The Biden administration is toughening its language toward NATO ally Turkey

Asharq Al-Awsat

US-led Forces Resume Normal Patrols in Syria

A US-led coalition fighting militants resumed regular patrols in Kurdish-held areas of northeast Syria on Friday after earlier Turkish airstrikes, an AFP correspondent and a Kurdish military source said. Patrols were reduced following the Turkish strikes that began on November 20 in Kurdish-controlled areas of Syria and Iraq, in response…

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Turkey’s operation against Kurds in Syria risks reviving IS group

Turkey is threatening to send group troops into northeastern Syria in retaliation for a deadly Istanbul bombing on November 13 that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attributes to the Syrian Kurdish YPG (Kurdish People’s Protection Unit). The group has strongly denied responsibility for the attack. However, Erdogan now plans to escalate…

The Conversation

Friday essay: how the West betrayed Syria

“Assad, or we burn the country,” Syrian government loyalists chanted in 2011. It was a statement of intent that proved to be prophetic.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Seven US Betrayals of Kurds within a Century… Will It Fail Them Again in Syria?

If the reaction to Turkish incursions or continued aerial bombardment against Kurdish targets in northern Syria does not meet Kurdish expectations and demands, it wouldn’t be the first time Kurds are betrayed by the US or the West. In the past century, the global and regional balance of power has…

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Turkey has put the US in a tough spot by threatening another Syria incursion

Syria’s civil war, which entered its 11th year this March, may at first look like a clear-cut case of good versus evil, in which a bloodthirsty dictator, Bashar Assad, tries to snuff out any semblance of opposition to his rule. Yet, the conflict is far more complicated than that. Far…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Thousands Protest Turkish Strikes on Kurdish Groups in Syria

Thousands of Kurds protested on Sunday in the Syrian city of Qamishli against days of deadly Turkish cross-border strikes targeting Kurdish groups in the country's northeast. Türkiye announced last Sunday it had carried out air strikes against semi-autonomous Kurdish zones in north and northeastern Syria, and across the border in…

France 24

The Kurds are the 'ideal scapegoat for both Turkey and Iran'

Turkey began a fresh offensive against Kurdish groups in Syria on Sunday amid a concurrent air campaign against Iraqi Kurdistan launched by the troubled Iranian regime – embattling Kurds on both sides of their border-spanning homeland.

The Independent UK

Turkish strikes on Kurds stoke tensions with Syria as well

This weekend's Turkish airstrikes targeting Kurdish fighters in northern Syria also threaten to stoke tensions with the Syrian government

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