Bîrnebûn Magazine, which deeply researches and documents the cultural memory of the Kurds of Central Anatolia, was founded in 1997 by a group of Kurdish intellectuals living in Germany.

The first issue of the magazine was published in Germany, and from the second issue onwards it continues to be published in Sweden with the support of Apec Publishing House.

On the Trail of an Undocumented Memory

Bîrnebûn stands out not only as a publication, but also as a research archive that traces historical information that has been ignored or not written down.

Some of the main goals of the magazine:

📝 To document the historical and cultural heritage of the Kurds of Central Anatolia

📚 To transform oral sources into permanent memory by putting them in writing

🎙️ To provide scientific and literary content aimed at preserving the Kurdish identity, culture and language

What is included in the magazine?

Birnebun Magazine has published dozens of issues to date, offering content on the following topics:

Articles in Kurdish and Turkish

Historical research and family stories

Tribal structures, migration routes, traditional lifestyles

Oral history narratives about Central Anatolian Kurds

Literature, poetry and cultural analyses

Being the voice of Central Anatolian Kurds

A great deal of information about Central Anatolian Kurds, which has been little studied, ignored or left incomplete until now, has been recorded thanks to Birnebun’s publishing policy.

The magazine has become a cultural archive by compiling local testimonies, narratives, migration and exile stories.

The magazine’s writers: Carriers of memory

The leading writers of Birnebun Magazine, Nuh Ateş, Fikret Yıldız (Dr. Mîkaîlî) and Muzaffer Özgür, both conduct one-on-one research in the field and build this memory with literary and scientific texts.