Turkey questions Hollande contacts with dead Kurdish activist 12 January 2013 Last updated at 15:04 Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on French President Francois Hollande to explain why he previously met one of the Kurdish activists shot dead in Paris on Thursday. One of the three women killed was Sakine Cansiz - a co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) - a group proscribed by the European Union. Mr Hollande has said that he and other politicians had regularly met one of the women, without saying which one. Turkey has fought the PKK for 25 years. Some 40,000 people have died, but the Paris shootings came as Ankara sought peace talks with the group. Thousands demonstrated in central Paris on Saturday to demand action over the deaths of the activists who were found shot dead at the Kurdish information centre in Paris on Thursday. 'Immediate' answers At a meeting in Istanbul, Mr Erdogan said Mr Hollande should "immediately disclose" why he met members of "this terrorist organisation, what was discussed, to what end he was in communication with these terrorists." How can you routinely meet with members of an organisation labelled a terrorist group by the European Union and being sought by Interpol? What kind of politics is this?" he added. Sakine Cansiz, who was detained and tortured in Turkey in the 1980s, is said to be close to the jailed PKK leader, Abdullah Ocalan. Mr Erdogan has suggested the killings had been designed to sabotage peace talks between Turkey and the PKK.