Yann Moulier-Boutang, founder of Multitudes magazine, member of the UEF France Scientific Council, and retired economics professor, and US professor Dona Haraway have expressed their support for Abdullah Öcalan’s “Call for Peace and a Democratic Society” and the decisions of the PKK's 12th Congress to disband and disarm.

According to a statement from the DEM Party Press Office, French economist and essayist Yann Moulier-Boutang, who was once a representative of the autonomous movement in Paris, and American professor Donna Haraway sent messages.

Yann Moulier-Boutang, founder of Multitudes magazine, member of the UEF France Scientific Council, and retired professor of economics, expressed his support in the following statement:

"Like other European intellectuals, I welcome the DEM Party's struggle for peace. This struggle, together with the PKK leader's proposal to renounce armed struggle and dissolve his party, represents an important opportunity for Turkey to become truly democratic and for the Kurdish people to finally find their place in this country on the basis of equal citizenship.

No development concerning Turkey can be considered irrelevant to a citizen of the European Union. This is because the European Union accepted Turkey, which applied for candidacy in 1987, as an official candidate in 1999. The basic conditions of the candidacy process include democracy, the rule of law, respect for human rights, and therefore the situation of the Kurds. Although there was a partial decrease in pressure on Kurds between 2013 and 2014, the government's authoritarian tendencies reversed this process.

The Kurdish question is a decisive factor in the transformation of the political regime in Turkey. The issue here is not to support the PKK or its leader in prison, but to see Öcalan's call for an end to armed struggle and the dissolution of the organization as a historic opportunity for Turkey's democratization. This call has taken on a concrete form as of May 12. Moreover, with the collapse of the Assad regime in December 2024 and the war in Ukraine, the international conjuncture in the Middle East is also changing. These developments may signal the beginning of a new era for Kurds in Iraq, Syria, and even Iran.

Today, we must invest in the possibility of building an inclusive democracy that includes minorities in the Middle East. The EU's policy towards the Middle East must also be consistent with the principles that shape its own democratic life."

American feminist academic Donna Haraway sent the following message of support for the process:

“I support the Kurdish people and their representatives in the peace process in Turkey. An honorable and genuine peace now seems like an achievable dream. With hope and solidarity…”