KURDISH hunger striking MP Leyla Guven was awarded honorary citizenship of Paris last night after the city council voted in favour of a motion brought by the Left Party.

Danielle Simonnet, who is also the national spokeswoman for La France Insoumise, won majority support in the chamber to grant Ms Guven, the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) MP who has entered the 90th day of her hunger strike, citizenship of the French capital.

The motion also called for the government to pressure Turkey to end the isolation of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan and prevent a massacre of Kurds in Syria by Turkish armed forces who are threatening an imminent invasion of Manbij.