French intelligence says, Paris killings an inside job

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The French intelligence informed the Turkish government officials about an investigation into the killings of three Kurdish women — including a co-founder of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Paris earlier this month — saying that the assassination of the women was the result of an intra-PKK conflict, Turkish media outlets reported on Sunday.

French police took two men into custody as part of the investigation, French police and judicial sources said on Friday. Suspects are still being held in custody and French police have increased the detention time of suspects to 96 hours.

The murder is seen in Turkey as an effort to derail ongoing peace talks between the Turkish government and the terrorist organization in a bid to end decades of fighting.

On Jan. 9, three female PKK militants, Sakine Cans?z, Fidan Do?an and Leyla Söylemez, were gunned down at the Kurdistan Information Bureau in Paris. The bodies of the militants were flown to Turkey, where they were sent to the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r for burial.

The execution-style killings came as Turkey is holding talks with jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan to broker a deal for the disarming of the PKK. The group, designated a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and European Union, is reviled by most Turks, who see it as responsible for a conflict that has killed 40,000 people as it tries to carve up Turkish territory.

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