A Stubborn Spring Kurdish and Kurdish Literature

While common problems were periodically experienced regarding the pressures on the language in the lands where Kurdish language and literature lived, the development process and literary production in different dialects of Kurdish such as Kurman, Soran, Zazaki followed a different course due to the unique political-social-historical characteristics of the countries in question. .

The rapid modernization and disintegration process of the last thirty years in Turkey, the liquidation of pre-capitalist lifestyles, and the politicization around mother tongue and identity since the 90s have accelerated the production in the field of Kurdish language and literature. The efforts of Kurdish periodicals, publishing houses and other cultural institutions, combined with developing communication opportunities, have reached new dimensions in language studies and literary production in every field. The effects of war, migration and social upheavals were reflected in literature.

In this burning process, it seems that the Turkish reader remains far away from the ongoing discussions and studies on Kurdish language and literature on a world scale, as well as from the important literary texts and theoretical discussions that were translated into world languages a long time ago. This situation paves the way for Kurdish language and literature to be subordinated or even ignored.

This compilation, which includes articles written by writers and experts who have worked and produced products on Kurdish language and literature, aims to reconsider Kurdish language and literature , which is generally discussed in Turkey through the "mother tongue ban", around the unique conditions, history and current problems of the lands where it comes to life.

We hope that the book you have in your hand will be a horizon opener for Turkish literature, whose ties with the ancient narrative forms in the Middle East have been damaged, where top-down Westernization has been one of the important problems since the Tanzimat.