Stating that a work was not written in Koçgiri Kurdish, which was about to disappear before, Topuz said for his book, which means “Surface and Depth”, “A debt payment, a remedy. An inner revolt of the individual who possesses that desire as well as a literary desire. "There is a record of objection against what happened in the past in the book."
“Rû û Kûr”, a storybook, includes narratives about the world of the Koçgiris through songs, memories and tales.
ISBN 10: 6052246162 ISBN 13: 9786052246160
Publisher: Avesta Yayinlari, 2018
[1] The Koçgiri rebellion or Koçkiri rebellion (Kurdish: Serhildana Qoçgiriyê, Turkish: Koçgiri İsyanı) was a Kurdish uprising, that began in the overwhelmingly militant Koçgiri region in eastern present-day Sivas Province in February 1921. The rebellion was initially Alevi, but succeeded in gathering support from nearby Sunni tribes. The tribe leaders had close relations to the Society for the Rise of Kurdistan (SAK). The rebellion was defeated in June 1921.
After the Treaty of Sèvres was signed the Kurds began to feel more trustful that they were able to reach at least some sort of an autonomous government for themselves. Abdulkadir Ubeydullah, the son of Sheikh Ubeydullah and the president of the SAK,supported the idea of a Kurdish autonomy within Turkey. But Nuri Dersimi and Mustafa Pasha wanted more than autonomy, they wanted to establish an independent Kurdistan according to article 64 of the treaty. Mustafa Kemal followed up on the events in the Dersim area and as it came to his knowledge that some of the Kurds were pursuing autonomy in line with the fourteen points announced by US president Woodrow Wilson, he answered that the plan of Wilson was worthless for the peoples in the eastern provinces and they should rather follow his Turkish nationalist movement.
[2] Kurdish is divided into three groups, where dialects from different groups are not mutually intelligible without acquired bilingualism.
Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) is the largest dialect group, spoken by an estimated 15 to 20 million Kurds in Turkey, Syria, northern Iraq, and northwest and northeast Iran.
Central Kurdish (Sorani) is spoken by an estimated 6 to 7 million Kurds in much of Iraqi Kurdistan and the Iranian Kurdistan Province. Sorani is a written standard of Central Kurdish developed in the 1920s (named after the historical Soran Emirate) and was later adopted as the standard orthography of Kurdish as an official language of Iraq.
Southern Kurdish (Pehlewani) is spoken by about 3 million Kurds in Kermanshah and Ilam provinces of Iran and in the Khanaqin district of eastern Iraq.
[3] Established in 1995, Avesta Publishing has published over 600 books so far. Abdullah Keskin is the editor of more than 500 of them. Keskin is also the editor and publishing house owner in Kurdish publishing, against whom the highest number of investigations have been launched. He has been investigated as the publisher and editor of over 40 books. Further reading Further reading 2
"...We founded Avesta at the end of the year 95. Actually, I had previously worked as a editor and journalist in several publishing houses. But I always felt like doing publishing on my own. I was onto that. Because I believed that real changes would happen with books. We thought that we should start somewhere with the encouragement of many people around us, especially Mehmed Uzun. If we had waited for a businessman to come and invest or conditions to occur, Avesta would probably not have been established for another 20 years. Despite all the shortcomings, problems and prohibitions, we began. In 95, 3 books about Kurds were published and then banned. Books, magazines and tapes that were published consecutively with the lifting of the ban on speaking Kurdish in 91 caused great excitement. But on the other hand, this excitement faded in a short time as it was not founded on well preparation and with serious labor. We started publishing with 4 Kurdish books now in order to feel that excitement once again. We have reached about 680 books today. I think we will exceed 700 at the end of the 25th year..." EXCERPT Further reading 2
Ali Duran Topuz was born in 1967 in the district of Zara in Sivas. After graduating from Istanbul University Faculty of Law, he worked as a lawyer in various radios and newspapers. Topuz, who took part in the establishment of Radikal Newspaper and Akşam Newspaper, worked as the editor-in-chief of Radikal Newspaper. He was a media critic and presenter in the program "Dünya Hali" in Radio Sputnik and on IMC TV. Topuz, who is the Editor-in-Chief of Gazete Duvar, writes stories and poetry along with topics such as politics and law.
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