Slaughter In Paris: Who Killed The Kurds? -- Christopher Dickey And Tracy McNicoll, Daily Beast
Three female Kurdish activists were killed in the heart of Paris, it was discovered today. Christopher Dickey and Tracy McNicoll on possible motives—and the threat to peace.
The execution-style killing of three Kurdish activists in the heart of Paris on Wednesday may threaten peace talks between the Turkish government and Kurdish rebels that have been decades in the making. It immediately evoked memories of past assassinations targeting Kurdish exiles in Europe in the 1980s, and provoked conspiracy theories as complex as any in the Middle East. But for the moment French authorities do not have any specific suspects in what Interior Minister Manuel Valls flatly described as “assassinations.”
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