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MÊRDÎN - The Turkey branch of Mouvement de la Paix is applying to take part in the Kurdish resolution process, says movement activist RozaDersim.

The civil society organization, founded by 60 people in the wake of the Second World War, now has representation in 150 countries around the world.In Turkey, the organization has undertaken a number of campaigns for world peace and has now applied to join the negotiations for the peaceful and democratic resolution of the Kurdish question in May. If the ruling AKP accepts the application, the Mouvement de la Paix will send a delegation from Europe to participate.

RozaDersim, the only Kurdish woman in the Mouvement de la Paix, says the movement supports the peace process and the freedom of the Kurdish people.

"We know that the people of Kurdistan are longing for peace, that they want a dignified peace, and we want to support this," said Roza.Roza said that Öcalan's demands presented to the state, presented as a 10-point draft plan, are quite reasonable. It was absurd, she said, to call Öcalan or his party terrorists.

"No fighter defending the labor, language, race and lifestyle of a people can be a terrorist," she said. "The PKK is a party of workers, a humanist movement, a movement for human dignity. And we know who the real terrorists, occupiers and barbarians are. We want the PKK immediately removed from Europe's terror list."

"Through history, the people of Kurdistan have been defiled by cruel treatment. We believe it's necessary for this stain on history to end immediately," she said. She said the movement sees the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne as a betrayal of the Kurdish people.

Regarding the recent World March of Women that started on March 6^th in Nusaybin, in Kurdistan, in which Roza was a participant, she said it was long past time when such an international action needed to come to Kurdistan.

"People of the world needed to come to know the struggle of Kurdish women much earlier," she said. "The Kobanê victory was a victory for all women of the world, but women have been resisting in Kurdistan in this way for 36 years. And they've been struggling for hundreds of years."

"Now, the heroic resistance of the youth of Kobanê and Shengal is rewriting history and represents a new hope for humanity," said Roza. "Before now, the world had always been blind and deaf to the struggle of Kurds."

Roza is also a member of the French construction workers' union SCT, which started a reconstruction effort in Kobanê after it was liberated in January.

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