Following threats from a retired Turkish intelligence agent about further political murders of Kurdish executives in Europe, the nationwide umbrella organization KON-MED is calling for Ankara to be brought to account.
After the remarks of retired Turkish intelligence agent Ismail Hakkı Pekin, outrage within Kurdish society is increasing. The former head of the military intelligence service recently admitted on Turkish TV that the murders of the three Kurdish revolutionaries Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez in Paris on 9 January 2013 were a state operation. He also advocated for other political murders of Kurdish executives.
The Confederation of the Communities of Kurdistan in Germany (KON-MED) demanded that France investigate the Paris murders and ensure that all those responsible, "first and foremost the dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan", are brought to justice. “We will not rest until we receive the accountability and justice that Kurdish society deserves.”
On February 16, Ismail Hakkı Pekin declared on a television program on the Turkish military aggression in Gare, South Kurdistan, that “KCK executives should be targeted in Iraq, Syria and Europe”. They also have their elements in Europe. We have to target also these executives in Europe. I mean, it has already been done in Paris...”
KON-MED reminds us that MIT in Germany is regularly associated with contract killings of Kurdish opposition members and that the whole of Germany serves as a field of action for espionage and propaganda networks of the Turkish regime.
It was not until November that the Ministry of the Interior of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia announced that MIT activities in Germany were “largely dedicated to spying on the opposition”. The ministry also warned of attacks by Turkish nationalists on opposition activists in exile from Turkey and of supposedly independent organizations such as the Union of Democrats (UID) and DITIB. The report by the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of the Interior says: "Active control and guidance by MIT employees who work in Germany is often not necessary, since information can also be sent via third parties or as part of home visits."
KON-MED warned against the activities of the Turkish secret service think tank "Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research" (SETA). It is a political instrument of the Erdogan government that serves to publicly defame Kurds and opposition members from Turkey. “In Short – said KON-MED - we can say that the threats from Ankara are not empty threats. We are therefore again calling on the French judiciary to bring the preliminary investigation to a serious conclusion. We are demanding for Ankara to be held accountable. Because if the threats from Turkey are put into practice, the European community will bear the responsibility.
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