France and Turkey condemn killings of Kurdish activists

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France and Turkey have condemned the killing of three female Kurdish activists in Paris.

Kurds turned out in anger after the women's bodies were found shot in the head in a Kurdish centre.

One of the victims, Sakine Cansiz, is a founder member of the Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK, an armed separatist group which has waged a 28-year insurgency against the Turkish state.

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