Fidan admitted MIT faction executed 3 PKK women in Paris, KCK head claims
Cemil Bayık, the head of the Kurdistan Communities' Union (KCK), has reportedly said that Hakan Fidan, head of the National Intelligence Organization (MIT), admitted that a group within the intelligence body was responsible for the execution of three Kurdish women linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Paris in 2013.
In an interview published on Sunday in the Cumhuriyet daily, Bayık, who is also the “number two” man in the outlawed PKK, claimed that the Paris murders were committed by a faction consisting of ultranationalists and members of the "parallel state," in reference to the Gülen movement, also known as Hizmet movement, within MİT, adding, "But he [Fidan] is the head of MİT, and it is impossible to think he is not aware of the assassinations."
Three Kurdish women, Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Söylemez, were found dead with gunshot wounds at a Kurdish information center in Paris in January 2013. The killing of the PKK-linked women is yet to be solved.
When asked whether MİT executed key members of the PKK while it was involved in the talks with the group, Bayık, who clearly expressed his lack of confidence in Fidan's argument that he was not aware of the killings, stated that besides MİT, other international actors took part in the murders to interrupt the Kurdish settlement process. The talks were initiated in 2011 in order to seek a solution to the country's decades-long Kurdish problem, which cost nearly 40,000 lives.
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