Turkey’s PM demands Hollande explain meeting with killed terrorist

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called on French President Francois Hollande to explain why he had met one of three Kurdish women with links to the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) who were shot dead in Paris this week, the Today's Zaman reports.

Hollande has said he knew one of the killed Kurdish women and was meeting with her regularly, describing the assassination as “horrible.”

The bodies of the women -- PKK co-founder Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Söylemez -- were found at around 1:30 a.m. on Thursday at the Kurdistan Information Center on Rue Lafayette in Paris.

"How can you routinely meet with members of an organization labelled a terrorist group by the European Union and being sought by Interpol? What kind of politics is this?" Erdoğan said in a speech to a business group on Saturday.

"The French president should immediately disclose to the public why he met with members of this terrorist organization, what was discussed, to what end he was in communication with these terrorists," the prime minister said, adding that Turkey would pursue unspecified legal measures on the matter.