15.10.2025

Sirgûn “Rîşa Pûç”: The story of exile, pain, and resistance

The one-man play Sîrgûn “Rîşa Pûç,” brought to the stage by writer and actor Ayhan Erkmen, brings together the exile-filled lives of three great names in Kurdish literature: Celadet Alî Bedirxan, Erebê Şemo, and Mehmed Uzun. Directed by Sabri Ejder Öziç, the play met with audiences at the Sezai Karakoç Culture and Congress Center (ÇandAmed) on the 18th anniversary of Mehmed Uzun's death.
03.10.2025

The history carved into stones in the village of Şabani, Cizre

Ebubekir Sinayiç, who lives in the village of Şabani in Cizre, has turned his garden into an open-air museum dedicated to history. Sinayiç, who has carved the traces of many civilizations from Egypt to Mitanni, and from Assyria to Rome onto a 3-4 ton stone, also displays old tools and equipment he has collected from the villagers, inviting people to connect with the past.