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Mazlum Dogan

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Mazlum Dogan in the beginning of the eighties, in the city of Amed "Diyarbakir" , a young Kurdish man shrieked front of the Turkish military court saying that he will never surrender to them he will never stop asking for Kurdish Rights  screaming Serhildan jiyan e Berxwedan jiyan e which means "resistance means I am alive" resistance against Turkish fascism governments  it was very hard to him to say that, because of the long hours of tortures that Turkish soldiers did to him in the prison..he almost was able to stand on his foot  he continued to say his words "Serhildan jiyan e Berxwedan jiyan " 20 times till he fall down the ground and pass out,  this man's name was Mazlum Dogan.... On 21 March 1982, the day that Kurds celebrate "Newroz" by lighting up bonfires, Mazlum set his own cell at the AMED"Diyarbakır" Prison on fire and hanged himself in order to protest against the Turkish Government. With this act, he tried to aw...

Dildar

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Dildar Yûnis Reuf or Dildar As we know him   the Kurdish poet and political activist in 1945 He wrote the Poem "Ey-Reqîb" (adopted as Kurdish national anthem)  Birth and study ========= He was born on February 20, 1918  in the town Koy-Sanjaq "one of Kurdistan's region towns around Erbil"  Kurdish People called him "Dildar" which means "the Lover,beau,someone in love " he finished his elementary & middle school in "Koy-Sanjaq" then moved to Kirkuk, to study at the secondary school after he finished his study in Kirkuk he decide to travel to the capital of Iraq "Baghdad" because of his desire of studying law in order to become a lawyer,and he graduated in 1945 Dildar loved to get and know more information even outside the school so he start to read books about Kurdish folklore, and about the literature and history of Europe while he was in the middle school. he was reading about greek,France,Turkey history which made s...