Friday’s shooting was followed by days of protests by Kurdish groups and their supporters in the French capital Some of the protesters waved flags of the PKK — designated as a terrorist organization by Turkiye ISTANBUL/PARIS: Turkiye on Monday summoned France’s ambassador over “anti-Turkiye propaganda” that it alleged French officials did little to stop following the killing of three Kurds in Paris. Friday’s shooting was followed by days of protests by Kurdish groups and their supporters in the French capital. Some of the protesters waved flags of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) — designated as a terrorist organization by Turkiye and its Western allies. Others held banners with slogans accusing Turkiye of being a killer state and connected to the shooting. A Turkish diplomatic source said French Ambassador Herve Magro was summoned to the foreign ministry for allegedly failing to stop the “black propaganda” promoted by the PKK. “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 alleged that the PKK’s false allegations were used “by French government officials and some politicians” against Ankara. “We expect France to to act prudently over the incident and not to allow the (banned PKK) terrorist organization to advance its sneaky agenda,” the source said. Turkiye’s relations with France have been stained by their opposing stances on the conflict in Syria and a range of other regional disputes. The protests broke out after a 69-year-old white French man opened fire at a Kurdish cultural center in Paris. The suspect has confessed to a “pathological” hatred for foreigners. The PKK has been waging a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state that has claimed tens of thousands of lives. A 69-year-old Frenchman was handed preliminary charges Monday of racially motivated murder and weapons violations over Friday’s shooting, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. The suspect told investigators that he had wanted to kill migrants or foreigners and then had planned to kill himself, and said he had a “pathological” hatred of non-European foreigners, according to prosecutors. (With AP and AFP)