ANKARA, Dec 25 Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalın accused France in support of the banned in his country Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Syria, according to him, PKK representatives are now «burning the streets of Paris.»
«This is the PKK in France. The same terrorist organization that you support in Syria. The same PKK that has killed thousands of Turks, Kurds and security forces over the past 40 years. Now they are burning the streets of Paris. You will still be silent ?» Kalyn wrote on his Twitter account.
On Friday, a 69-year-old man opened fire on the street near the cultural center of the Kurds in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, he was detained. As a result of the shooting, three people were killed, two of the victims are in critical condition, and two more are in a state of moderate severity. According to a representative of the Kurdish community, three Kurdish activists were killed. The Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation into the murder case.
According to media reports, the shooter admitted that he planned to attack the Kurdish community and that his actions were caused by racial hatred.
Thousands of Kurds took to the Place de la République in Paris on Saturday to protest the shooting in the 10th arrondissement of the capital that killed three Kurdish activists on Friday. They consider the incident a terrorist attack against the Kurdish community. Protesters believe Turkey is behind the shooting. The demonstration quickly turned into clashes with the police. Protesters smashed bus stops, overturned cars, set fire to furniture, garbage cans and broke cobblestones from the pavement, and then threw them at the police. Law enforcement officers repeatedly used tear gas to disperse the crowd. As a result of the clashes, several people were injured.