ANKARA - Expressing his support for the process to resolve the Kurdish issue Prof. Enzo Traverso said, "The national Kurdish question is at a historic turning point."
In a message sent to the Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party, Italian Professor Enzo Traverso supported Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan's Call for Peace and Democratic Society. He stated that the Kurdish question has reached a historical turning point and that the world left should support the strategic transformation.
Traverso said: "The national Kurdish question is at a historic turning point. The PKK’s decision of abandoning armed struggle and self-dissolving to become a major force for socialist transformation claiming democracy and adopting peaceful means of action, was certainly an extremely difficult choice. I believe the global left should welcome this strategic change and admire the courage and audacity of its members. A new political process has begun, filled with uncertainties, pitfalls, and unexpected challenges, but all conquest requires courage and audacity. This is the condition for moving forward."
WHO IS ENZO TRAVERSO?
Enzo Traverso was born in Italy in 1957. After graduating from the University of Genoa, Traverso received his PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in 1989. For many years he taught political science at various universities in France. Since 2013, he has been a professor in the Department of History at Cornell University.