Rue d’Enghien, the Kurds struck in the heart

Lhe faces are serious, the features hollowed out by nights that are too short, the throats knotted and irritated by the tobacco. A crowd of gloomy faces throngs the rue d’Enghien, “shoulder to shoulder”, as we say in the country. Since the attack on the Kurdish Ahmet-Kaya cultural center on Friday 23 December, the “little Turkey” of the 10 ^e district of the capital is once again in turmoil. Closed to traffic by the police, the street where the tragedy took place is roamed by groups of Kurds, cellphones screwed to their ears. In a flash, the whole community realized the gravity of the moment. She came to unite around her “martyrs”, in an atmosphere of mixed mourning and anger reminiscent of the great political mobilizations in Kurdistan.

Entrances to the…