Three Kurdish women shot dead in Paris

Bodies found early Thursday morning inside the Kurdish Institute, including a co-founder of the PKK.

Three Kurdish women have been shot dead overnight inside the Kurdish Institute in Paris, including a co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Their bodies were found at around 2am on Thursday morning [0100GMT]. All three were shot in the head.
"The scene leads one to think of an execution, but the investigation will determine the exact circumstances," a police source told the AFP news agency.
Sources in Diyarbakir, in eastern Turkey, told Al Jazeera that one of the women, Sakine Cansiz, was a co-founder of the PKK, the separatist group which has been fighting a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish government.
Another was 32-year-old Fidan Dogan, who worked in the institute's information centre, according to its director, Leon Edart. The identity of the third woman, who was reportedly a Kurdish activist but did not work at the institute, was not immediately available.
The three were last seen on Wednesday at the centre, which was locked by late afternoon.
The Turkish government has recently resumed negotiations with jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan about disarming his group in exchange for greater rights for the country's Kurdish minority.