TO THE PRESS AND THE PUBLIC
The voice of Kurdish poetry, Kurdish literature, the Kurdish language, Kurdish culture, and the Kurdish halay will echo despite all the pressure!
From Kurdish songs to Kurdish halays, the Kurdish language and culture are being attacked, people are being arrested and tortured. We are aware that these are not arbitrary practices.
This is being done within a dirty concept, within the context of an assimilationist mind and the destruction of Kurdish culture.
Today, we learned that prisoners Enes İlgen and Serdar Başaran in Bafra T Type Prison were given 11 days of solitary confinement because of the Kurdish poems and songs in their notebooks.
As the Oral Culture, History and Literature Research Association (SÖZDER), we define this as cultural genocide and social amnesia; we condemn these attacks that aim to destroy the Kurdish memory, Kurdish literature and language, and we state that we do not accept it in any way, that we will make the Kurdish language and culture visible in every field and that we will be the voice of Kurdish poetry, language and culture.
28.08.2024
