Emine Kara, Mir Perwer and Abdurrahman Kizil. Their names and their faces were brandished by the demonstrators, Saturday December 24, Place de la République, in Paris, like Monday December 26, during the white march organized by the Kurdish Democratic Center of France (CDKF). The three victims of the rue d’Enghien, all murdered on the steps or in front of the Kurdish Cultural Center Ahmet-Kaya, late Friday morning, December 23, by William M., the alleged killer, have become the new “martyrs” of the Kurdish cause.
Emine Kara, 48, known by her nom de guerre Evin Goyi, is one of the heroines of the Kurdish national movement
Of the three, Emine Kara is undoubtedly the best known. This 48-year-old woman, also known by her nom de guerre Evin Goyi, is one of the heroines of the Kurdish national movement emerging from the ranks of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), at war against the Turkish state and against the jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) organization. Like Sakine Cansiz, co-founder of the PKK and friend of its leader, Abdullah Öcalan, Fidan Dogan, in charge of external relations for the European Union, and Leyla Saylemez, who led the party’s youth movement, all killed shot on January 9, 2013, rue La Fayette, in Paris.
The PKK has many women in its leading positions, including in its armed wing. It is not just a policy of parity, but a very assertive feminist commitment, which is one of the ideological pillars of the movement – along with ecology and a Marxist-leaning communalism – and contributes to its aura among left and ultra-left circles in the West.
Emine Kara, a certain notoriety in feminist circles
Dignified and reserved, even austere, Emine Kara led the Kurdish Women’s Movement of France, although she did not speak French. It is in this capacity that she was present on Friday morning at the Ahmet-Kaya Kurdish Cultural Center to participate in a meeting – postponed at the last moment – to prepare for the commemoration of the triple assassination of 2013. It is also this militant activity which earned her a certain notoriety in feminist circles in France. It is because of Emine Kara that Laetitia and Constance, two young French feminist activists with no connection to Kurdistan, came on Saturday, December 24, to pay homage, Place de la République, to the victims of the rue d’Enghein.
Emine Kara’s village was burned down when she was 18 in the early 1990s during Turkey’s Years of Lead
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