One was a heroine of the Kurdish national movement who had fought the Islamic State organization, the other two, a young musician and a retiree. Of the three victims of the rue d’Enghien, the first was the best known.
by Christophe Ayad
Emine Kara, Mir Perwer and Abdulrahman Kizil. Their names and faces were brandished by the demonstrators, Saturday, December 24, place de la République, in Paris, as Monday 26, during the White Marche organized by the Kurdish Democratic Center of France (CDKF). The three victims of rue d’Enghien, all murdered on the steps or in front of the Kurdish cultural center Ahmet-Kaya, Friday December 23 at the end of the morning, by William M., the alleged killer, became the new “martyrs” of the kurdish cause.
of the three, Emine Kara, is undoubtedly the best known. This 48 -year -old woman, also called under her war name Evin Goyi, is one of the heroines of the Kurdish National Movement emerging from the ranks of the Kurdistan workers (PKK), at war against the Turkish State and against the jihadists of the ‘Islamic State Organization (IS). Like Sakine Cansiz, co -founder of the PKK and friend of her chief, Abdullah Öcalan, Fidan Dogan, in charge of external relations for the European Union, and Leyla Saylemez, who framed the party’s youth movement, all killed By balls on January 9, 2013, rue Lafayette, in Paris.
The PKK has a number of women in its executive posts, including in its armed branch. It is not only a policy of parity, but a very assertive feminist commitment, which is one of the ideological pillars of the movement – with ecology and a Marxist tendency – and contributes to its aura with Circles on the left and UltraGauche in the West.
Emine Kara, a certain notoriety in feminist circles
Digne and reserved, even austere, Emine Kara led the Kurdish women’s movement in France, although not expressed in French. It is for this reason that she was present, Friday morning, at the Ahmet-Kaya cultural center in order to participate in a meeting-postponed at the last moment-preparing the commemoration of the triple assassination of 2013. It is also this activity activist who earned him a certain notoriety in feminist circles in France. It is because of Emine Kara that Laetitia and Constance, two young French feminist activists unrelated to Kurdistan, came, Saturday, December 24, pay tribute to the Place de la République to the victims of rue d’Enghein.
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