Lawyer and human rights defender Eren Keskin spoke to the Mezopotamya News Agency on the fifth anniversary of the murders of revolutionary Kurdish women Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez who had been killed in Paris on January 9, 2013.

Keskin stated that the French and Turkish judiciaries have failed to bring the murders to light. Keskin stressed that the courts covered up the truth despite the role of the MİT being announced with documents and called prosecutors in Ankara and Paris to duty.

“SAKİNE WAS A WOMAN WHO FOUGHT HER FIGHT TO THE END”

Eren Keskin said she had met Sakine Cansız and Fidan Doğan in person and spoke out against justice that hasn’t been served in five years. Keskin met Cansız for the first time in 1991: “She came to our office after she got out of prison. She was a woman of very strong character and superior intelligence, she had a woman’s perspective, one could call her feminist, and she fought her ideology’s fight to the end. Every time I went to Europe, if she was nearby she came to listen to the conferences. We used to have long talks. She was a woman of great knowledge.”

“I CALLED ROJBIN FOR HOURS ON THE DAY OF THE MURDER”

Keskin said she knew Fidan Doğan very well too, and stressed that Doğan was also a very intelligent woman of great knowledge: “I knew Fidan as Rojbin, because everybody in Europe called her that. Whenever there was a meeting in the parliament in France, or about the European Union, Rojbin was always there. She was on duty in foreign relations and she was very knowledgeable and amicable. Everybody who went to conferences from Turkey to France knew Rojbin. She was part of every organization.”

Keskin said she called Rojbin for hours on the day of the murders to get information but then learned with great grief that she was one of the murdered women: “The news on TV said 3 Kurdish politician women had been murdered in Paris. I called Rojbin for hours to find out what happened. Then when the names were made public I learned that Rojbin was one of the murdered women.”

INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES COOPERATION IN THE MURDERS

Keskin spoke about the documents pointing to the role of the MİT in the murders and stated that she believed from the start that the murders had been committed by intelligence agencies. Keskin said she believes the murders were committed with cooperation by intelligence agencies including that of Turkey’s and added that the released documents confirm her belief. Keskin said even the pro-government papers wrote constantly that Ömer Güney, the murder suspect who died under suspicious circumstances, was a member of the MHP and added that the question, “Who placed Ömer Güney within the Kurdish movement?” needs to be answered. Keskin said intelligence agencies frequently use terminally ill people as hitmen and added that it had later come to light that Güney also had a terminal illness. Keskin stressed that the question, “Who used Ömer Güney?” needs to be put on the table concretely and at the legal level, and stated that the French and Turkish judiciaries failed to bring the murders to light. Keskin said: “The courts that don’t take action even though the MİT’s role in the murders has been announced with documents are covering up the truth.”

“THE PROSECUTOR SHOULD CONSIDER THESE DOCUMENTS CRIMINAL COMPLAINTS

Keskin stressed that the Paris murders point to the existence of intelligence agencies and units that don’t want a peaceful solution to the Kurdish issue and that the three revolutionary Kurdish women had been murdered to create a continuity in insolubility of the problem.

Lawyer Eren Keskin called on the prosecutor who is handling the investigation in Ankara and said: “The prosecutor should consider these documents criminal complaints without the need for a demand, and should inspect them. He should make the people listed in the document talk, he should call them in for a deposition. The French court should do the same.”