Kurdish people Kurdish people Ehmedê Xanî, (or Ahmad Khani), ( 1651- 1707) was a Kurdish writer and poet. He was born amongst the Khani's tribe in Hakkari province in present-day Turkey. He moved to Bayezid in Ritkan province and settled there. Later he started with teaching Kurdish ( Kurmanji) at basic level. Khani was fluent in Kurdish , Arabic and Persian. He wrote his Arabic-Kurdish vocabulary "Nû-Buhar" in 1683 to help children with their learning process. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ehmedê Xanî"
Emîr Xan Lepzêrîn was a Kurdish ruler of Beradost near Urmia. In 1609 he build up the ruined structure of the castle DimDim. He tries to get more independence of his expanding principality in the face of both Ottoman and Safavid penetration into the region. Rebuilding of Dimdim was considered a move toward independence that could threaten Safavid power in the northwest. Many Kurds including the rulers of Mukriyan ( Mahabad), rallied around Amir Khan. The Safavid Shah Abbas I sieges the castle. After a long battle led by the Safavid grand vizier Hatem Beg, which lasted from November 1609 to the summer of 1610, Dimdim was captured. All the defenders were massacred. Shah Abbas ordered a general massacre in Beradost and Mukriyan(Mahabad). ...more on Wikipedia about "Emîr Xan Lepzêrîn"
Faqi Tayran, (or Feqiyê Teyran), ( 1590- 1660) is considered as one of the great classic Kurdish poets and writers. His real name was "Mir Mihemed". He was born in a village called "Miks" in Hakkari region, in present-day south-eastern Turkey. In his youth, he went to Cizire(Botan) region (in present-day Şırnak province) to study under the suprevision of well known Kurdish poet, Malaye Jaziri. ...more on Wikipedia about "Faqi Tayran"
Farhad Ardalan (Born 1339 Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian High Energy physicist and University lecturer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Farhad Ardalan"
Farhad Pirbal, ( 1961- ), is a Kurdish writer and academic. He was born in Hewlêr( Arbil) in Iraqi Kurdistan. He studied Kurdish language and literature in University of Salahadin in Arbil. In 1986, he left Iraq for France. He continued his studies in University of Sorbonne in the field of Kurdish literature and Iranian studies. After going back to Iraqi Kurdistan, he established Sharafkhan Badlisi cultural center. ...more on Wikipedia about "Farhad Pirbal"
Farhad Shakely (born 1951) is a prominent Kurdish writer, poet and researcher. He was born in 1951 in the province of Kirkuk ( At-Ta'mim) in Iraqi Kurdistan. He began publishing poetry in 1968. In the early 1970's he studies in the Kurdish department of the Baghdad University. He went to Iran in 1974 and Syria in 1975. He lived in Germany from Autumn 1977 to Summer 1978. Finally he settled in Sweden in the same year. In 1981, after studying for one year at the University of Stockholm, he went to Uppsala University where he received his PhD. He is now teaching in the same university. He published a Swedish-Kurdish Journal between 1985 and 1989 called Svensk-Kurdisk Journal. In 1992, he published Kurdish nationalism in Mam and Zin of Ahmad Khani, a literary history that was translated into Swedish, Turkish and Arabic. Many of his poems have been translated into Persian, Arabic, Norwegian, Swedish, English, French, Italian, Icelandic and Danish. ...more on Wikipedia about "Farhad Shakely"
Feleknas Uca is a member of the European Parliament for the left German Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). She was at one time the world's only Yazidi parliamentarian, until the Iraqi legislature was elected in 2005. ...more on Wikipedia about "Feleknas Uca"
Feyli Kurds ( Kurdish: Feylî, Arabic: الفیلیة Al-Fayliah) are a group of southern Kurds living In the Diyala Province of Iraq around Khanaqin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Feyli Kurds"
Firat Cewerî, ( 1959- ) is a Kurdish writer, translator and journalist. He was born in the town of Dêrik near Mardin in south-eastern Turkey. In 1980s, he emigrated to Sweden, where he lives now. ...more on Wikipedia about "Firat Cewerî"
Ghashang Kamkar( Persian: قشنگ کامکار) (born in 1953) is a Kurdish ethnic Iranian musician. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ghashang Kamkar"
Hadschi Baba Scheich (Haji Baba Sheikh) (Hacî Baba Şêx in Kurdish) was the prime minister of the Republic of Mahabad. After the republic was conquered by the iranian army in 1947 he was the only one who wasn't hanged together with president Qazi Muhammad at the Chuwarchira Square in Mahabad in 1947. He was immune because of his religous standing. The journalist and lyric Hemin Mukriyani was his secretary during the republic. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hadschi Baba Scheich"
Haji Qadir Koyi (Hacî Qadirî Koyî in Kurdish), ( 1817- 1897), was a Kurdish poet. He carried on the nationalistic message of Ahmad Khani in his writings. He wanted to enlighten the people and help them to remedy the problems of illiteracy and backwardness and ideas which result from lack of knowledge and religious fanaticism. He encouraged people instead to turn to science and to the realities of modern society in the struggle to liberate and build an independant Kurdistan. According to him, a Kurd is one who speaks Kurdish. In his time, in the late 19th century, the remaining Kurdish principalities had been overthrown by the Ottoman and Persian states. Koyi attacked the shaikhs and mullahs who did not care for the Kurdish language and the notables who ignored the destinies of their people. Living his last years in cosmopolitan Istanbul, he was familiar with the nationalist struggles and the material advancement of modern nations. He constantly advocated use of the Kurdish language. Although his own medium was poetry, he urged the Kurds to publish magazines and newspapers. Calling on the Kurds, in the 1880s, to unite and form their own independent state, he also urged them to use the modern tools such as newspapers and magazines for mass communication. The first Kurdish newspaper, Kurdistan, was published in Cairo in 1898, a year after Haji Qadir's death. ...more on Wikipedia about "Haji Qadir Koyi"
Hatun Aynur Sürücü (also spelled Hatin Sürücü; born January 17, 1982 in Berlin; died February 7, 2005 in Berlin) was a kurdish woman, who was murdered at the age of 23 in Berlin, apparently by her own brothers, in a so-called honor killing. Sürücü had divorced the cousin she was forced to marry at the age of 16, and was reportedly dating a German man. Her murder inflamed a public debate over forced marriage in muslim families. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hatun Sürücü"
Hejar or Abdurrahman Sharafkandi or Hazhar, ( 1920- 1990), was a renowned Kurdish writer, poet, linguist and translator. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hejar"
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Hemin Mukriyani ( Hêmin Mukriyanî), ( 1921- 1986) is the pen name of Seyed Mohammad Amini Shaik-ol-eslam Mokri, Kurdish poet and journalist. He was born near Mahabad in north-western Iran. After completing his studies at Shaikh Borhan's khanaqah in sharafkand, Hemin joined the Kurdish Resurrection Party ( Komeley Jiyanewey Kurd), founded in 1942. Together with his friend Abd-al-Rahman Sharafkandi (Hazhar), he was nominated as the national poet of the Republic of Mahabad, and became the secretary of Haji Baba Shaikh, the prime minister and head of the self-proclaimed Repubic. He fled the oppression that followed the downfall of the Republic in December 1946 and he took refuge in Sulaimaniya in Iraqi Kurdistan, where he was arrested. After the agreements of 11 March 1970, which allowed the Kurdish insurgents and Baghdad's central government a four years' respite, Hemin settled down in Baghdad and became an active member of the Kurdish Academy of Science. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hemin Mukriyani"
Hesen Zîrek or Hasan Zirak ( 1921- 1972) was born in Hermêle (also Harmila), a small village in Bukan region in North-Western Iran ( Eastern Kurdistan). He showed his talent for singing in his early age. In 1953, he left for Iraqi Kurdistan and recorded a great number of songs in Kurdish for the Kurdish section of the Baghdad broadcasting station. In 1957, when he returned to Iranian Kurdistan for cooperation with music band of the Kurdish radio station in Kermanshah, where he recorded many Kurdish songs. Zirek and his wife Midya Zand had two daughters (Arezoo & Sakar) who currently live in Tehran, Iran. Hassan Zirek died from cancer at age 51 in June 26, 1972 and was buried in his native city Bukan, on Nalishkêne mountian one of the most famous mountains of the region which lies close to the city. He is still one of the most popular and well known singers in Kurdistan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hesen Zîrek"
Hooshang Kamkar( Persian: هوشنگ کامکار) (born in 1947) is an Iranian musician of Kurdish origin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hooshang Kamkar"
Hoshyar Zebari (born 1953) is the current Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Iraqi Transitional Government following the elections of January 2005. A Kurd originally from Aqrah, Zebari holds a masters degree in sociology from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom and studied political science in Jordan. He was the foreign spokesperson for the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the 1990s and represented the organization to the United Kingdom and the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hoshyar Zebari"
Ibn Athir is the family name of three brothers, all famous in Arabian literature, born at JazIrat ibn Umar in Kurdistan, now called Cizre in south-eastern Turkey. The eldest brother, known as Majd Ud-Din (1149-1210), was long in the service of the amir of Mosul, and was an earnest student of tradition and language. His dictionary of traditions (Kitdb un-Ni/zdya) was published at Cairo ( 1893), and his dictionary of family names (Kitdb ul-Murassa) has been edited by Seybold (Weimar, 1896). The youngest brother, known as Diva Ud-Din (1163-1239), served Saladin from 1191 on, then his son, al-Malik ul-Afdal, and was afterwards in Egypt, Samosata, Aleppo, Mosul and Baghdad. He was one of the most famous aesthetic and stylistic critics in Arabian literature. His Kitb ul-Matlial, published in Bulaq in 1865 (cf. Journal of tile German Oriental Society, xxxv. 148, and Goldzihers Abhandlungen, i. 161 sqq.), contains some very independent criticism of ancient and modern Arabic verse. Some of his letters have been published by D. S. Margoliouth On the Royal Correspondence of Diya ed-Din el-Jazari in the Actes du dixisne congrs internatio-nal des orientalistes, sect. 3, pp. 7-2 I. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ibn Athir"
Abu-l ‘Abbas Ahmad ibn Khallikan, ( 1211- 1282) was a Muslim Kurdish scholar of the 13th century. He was born at Irbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, in 1211. His most famous work is Wafayat al-Ayan (The Obituaries of Eminent Men) known as The Biographical Dictionary. He died in Damascus. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ibn Khallikan"
Idris Barzani was a Kurdish politician in Iraq. ...more on Wikipedia about "Idris Barzani"
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Mustafa İsmet İnönü ( 1884 - December 25, 1973) was a Turkish soldier, statesman and the second President of Turkey. ...more on Wikipedia about "İsmet İnönü"
Jalal Talabani (in Kurdish:ﻰﻧ ﺎﺑﻪﻟﺎﺗ ﻝﻻﻪﺟ /Celal Talebanî )(in Arabic: جلال طالباني: jalâl tâlabânî) (born 1933), Iraqi politician, was named President of Iraq on April 6, 2005 by the Iraqi National Assembly. Talabani is founder and secretary general of one of the main Iraqi Kurdish political parties, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). He was a prominent member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council, which was established following the overthrow of the Saddam Hussein regime by the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jalal Talabani"
Jamil Rostami (Born 1971, Sanandaj, Iran) is an Iranian film director of Kurdish origin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jamil Rostami"
Dr. Kamal Sayid Qadir (also known as Kamal Berzenji) (b. 1958 in Hewler, South Kurdistan) is a Kurdish human rights activist with Austrian citizenship. He immigrated to Austria in 1978 and studied law at the Vienna School of Law. He has taught at the universities of Suleimani (1998-99) and Hewler (1999-2000) in South Kurdistan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kamal Qadir"
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