06.12.2025

Mehmed Uzun is the architect of a modern perspective in Kurdish literature

Mehmed Uzun, one of the pioneering novelists of Kurdish literature, is increasingly discussed and reread each year for the role he played in the construction of modern Kurdish literature. In his comprehensive presentation, Associate Professor Zülküf Ergün made important assessments of Uzun's novelistic work through the lens of his “efforts toward a modern perspective.”
19.10.2025

Salih Agir Qoserî: Kurdish literature in Europe was created through exile, not through diaspora

Mehmed Uzun, one of the pioneers of Kurdish literature, was commemorated at an event held at the Sezai Karakoç Culture and Congress Center (ÇandAmed) in Diyarbakır on the anniversary of his death. As part of the event, writer and researcher Salih Agir Qoserî gave a speech titled “Exile and Writing.”
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.