ANKARA - Supporting Abdullah Öcalan’s February 27 call, French historian Jean-Numa Ducange said: "If internationalism still has meaning, then that meaning must be concretely realized here; the common future of the Turkish and Kurdish peoples must be guaranteed."

 

Jean-Numa Ducange sent a message of support to the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) regarding the Call for Peace and a Democratic Society made on February 27.

 

The message read: "I support your initiative. The Kurdish people’s struggle for existence is all the more legitimate and necessary, especially considering that today it is largely ignored at the international level. Many people demonstrate for the rights of the Palestinian people, but the Kurdish struggle has been forgotten. For this reason, supporting the Kurdish question with a democratic and peaceful perspective is more important than ever. The Kurds also have a voice, and this voice is being shaped by the perspective of a democratic and social republic. If internationalism still has meaning, then that meaning must be concretely realized here; the common future of the Turkish and Kurdish peoples must be guaranteed."

 

WHO IS JEAN-NUMA DUCANGE? 

 

Ducange is a professor of contemporary history at the University of Rouen Normandie and a member of the Institut universitaire de France. He specializes in leftist movements in French- and German-speaking countries and the “legacies” of the French Revolution in the modern world. He has authored numerous articles and works in various languages on these subjects. Ducange is also co-editor of the journal Actuel Marx and editor-in-chief of Mouvement ouvrier