French police have detained two Kurdish men, aged 30 and 39, for questioning as part of their investigation into the killing of three Kurdish rebel activists in Paris earlier this month, a police source said .
The three women, including a founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), were found shot in the head on January 10th at an institute with close links to the rebel movement.
More than 40,000 people have been killed since the PKK took up arms in 1984 with the aim of carving out a Kurdish homeland in the southeast of Turkey.
The men can be held for two days, though that limit can be extended in cases deemed serious. – (Reuters)