This study is based on the relationship between the Kurds and the Left in Turkey between 1960s and 1990 in Turkey. The question of identity is discussed in terms of the continuities and ruptures in the discourse(s) of the Left in Turkey on the 'eastern question' and 'Kurdish (national) question' in this period. The main question of the research is how the Kurdish identity was constructed in the discourses of Yön, TKSP (Türkiye Kürdistanı Sosyalist Partisi - Turkish Kurdistan Socialist Party), and the PKK (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê - Kurdistan Workers' Party). Three sample publications/organizations representative of the leftist discourse in the period were selected to show the Left's treatment of the Kurdish question by using periodical publications, memoirs, clandestine organizational documents and through discourse analysis.

Le présent travail tente de démontrer comment l’œuvre d’Ahmadou Kourouma est traversée par le discours oral et traditionnel. Le substrat culturel vernaculaire structure l’œuvre et la modèle aboutissant à une poétique hybride, synthèse de deux traditions littéraires ( orale et écrite) et de deux univers symboliques( le terroir malinké et l’héritage occidental colonial). La question identitaire demeure au centre de nos interrogations sur Kourouma. Toutes ces analyses insistent sur l’importance accordée au terroir et à son apport dans l’émergence d’une écriture de l’intériorité. Notre propos s’articule en trois grands axes qui révèlent la densité des références culturelles dans les romans de cet auteur et le rôle qu’elles jouent dans l’élaboration d’un ancrage identitaire et d’une esthétique débridée / This thesis tries to demonstrate how the work of Ahmadou Kourouma crosses both oral and traditional speech. A cultural vernacular substratum structures the work and moulds it, culminating in a poetical hybrid; a synthesis of two literary traditions (oral and written) and of two symbolic universes (the Malinké legacy and the western colonial influence). The question of identity forms the crux of our examination of Kourouma. This analysis highlights the importance given to the Malinké origins and contributes to the emergence of a “interiority”. writing style. This research concentrates on three main themes which reveal the density of cultural references in the novels of this author and the roles which they play in anchoring a strong cultural identity and a rich aesthetical style