In a television broadcast aired on CNN-Türk on February 16, the former head of the General Staff's Intelligence Department, Ismail Hakkı Pekin, admitted that the Paris killings on January 9, 2013, were an operation by the Turkish state. On January 9, 2013, a hitman had murdered three Kurdish revolutionaries Sakine Cansız, Leyla Şaylemez and Fidan Doğan in Paris. All traces pointed to the Turkish secret service MIT.

 

Ömer Güney, the arrested murderer, died in French prison under dubious circumstances before the trial has started. Authorities in France and Germany did everything they could to let the investigation fall asleep. Now, former high-ranking government official Ismail Hakkı Pekin is setting the ball rolling anew with a remark on a Turkish television program. In a television broadcast on the attacks on the Gare region in the Medya Defense Zones, he said there must be targeted liquidations of KCK leaders in Iraq, Syria and Europe. "They also have their elements in Europe," he said and added, "We have to do something in this direction in Europe. I mean, it was already done once in Paris ..."