Turkey summons French ambassador for failing to stop ‘black propaganda’ after Paris shooting

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has summoned France's ambassador over what it calls the French government’s failure to stop the dissemination of "black propaganda" against Turkey following the killing of three Kurds in Paris.

The move was made on Monday after widespread protests engulfed the French capital in the wake of a deadly shooting by a "racist" gunman that claimed three lives at a Kurdish cultural center and a nearby café.

Friday's shooting drew Kurdish groups and their supporters onto the streets of the French capital, with some of the protesters waving flags of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which is viewed as a terrorist organization by Turkey and its Western allies.

Other protesters chanted anti-Turkey slogans and held banners with mottoes accusing Ankara of being a “killer state” and connected to the shooting.

The French ambassador was summoned after Ankara said French officials did little to stop the anti-Turkey propaganda promoted by the PKK, according to a Turkish diplomatic source.

"We expressed our dissatisfaction with the black propaganda launched by PKK circles against our country and with the fact that the French government and some politicians are used as a tool in this propaganda," the source said.

The source added that the PKK's false allegations were used "by French government officials and some politicians" against Ankara.

"We expect France to act prudently in the face of the aforementioned incident," the source said.

French police arrested a 69-year-old suspect who the authorities said had recently been freed from detention while awaiting trial for a saber attack on a migrant camp in the capital last year.

Paris shooting: Police clash with protesters after ‘racist’ gunman kills three

A Frenchman assumed to be a racist kills 3 people and injures 3 more in a shooting attack on a Kurdish cultural center in Paris.

The 69-year-old suspect confessed to a "pathological" hatred for foreigners and spent nearly a day in a psychiatric facility before being returned to police custody on Sunday.

Judicial officials in France charged the man on Monday with murder and attempted murder because of race, ethnicity, nationality or religion as well as for the unauthorized procurement and possession of a weapon.

Over the past years, Turkey's relations with France have been stained by their opposing stances on the war in Syria and a range of other disputes.

The PKK militants — designated as terrorists by Turkey, the United States and European Union — regularly clash with Turkish forces in the Kurdish-dominated southeast of the country, which is attached to northern Iraq.

A shaky ceasefire between the PKK and the Turkish government collapsed in July 2015. Attacks on Turkish security forces have soared ever since.

More than 40,000 people have been killed during the three-decade conflict between Turkey and the autonomy-seeking militant group.

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