Thousands of Kurds have attended a memorial near Paris for three activists shot dead in the city, amid reports of Turkish air strikes on the PKK.
Carrying flags and posters of the three dead women, they followed the coffins across frozen ground to a community centre where they were put on display.
The victims, a senior official in the separatist PKK group and two political activists, will be buried in Turkey.
Jets reportedly bombed PKK targets in Iraq despite peace talks.
Turkish intelligence officials have been talking to Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party), on how to end their armed campaign.
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said his government would never surrender to Kurdish militants but he was cautiously hopeful that the talks could succeed.
Last year saw some of the heaviest fighting with the PKK in decades.
The group, regarded by the US and EU as a terrorist organisation, launched an armed campaign for an ethnic Kurdish homeland in south-east Turkey in 1984.
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