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understand love. There is no real love without respect. Love is mixed with respect. That
is why I prefer the word romantic rather, or more, than the word love itself. I don’t know
if I explained it very well to you―my idea.
EM: Another one we talked about was social issues, problems in society. What
would you call these?
BS: We call it cevakî. Cevak means ‘society’ and cevaki means ‘social.’ So, I
have some poems which deal with our social problems in Kurdistan. And we have a lot of
social problems, because Kurdish society is changing from old values to new values,
from old culture to new culture. That is why we have a lot of problems related to or due
to these transitions. We’ve got some people in the traditional class and some in the
modern class in our society. We’ve got some people who believe in religion deeply and
we’ve got, on the other side, some people who do not believe in religion at all. We’ve got
people who believe in our customs―Kurdish customs―and we have another side; we’ve
got a lot of people who believe in European customs and modern customs. So there is a
contradiction in our social life. In my poetry, I try to describe these problems and to find
some solutions to our problems. So, we can call these poems as poems of the social field.
EM: The last one is secularization.
BS: Yes, yes…Our Kurdish language has been affected too much by Arabic
because of respecting Islam and the Islamic Qur’an, the Islamic Bible. We lost a lot of
our traditions, our customs. We started to think as an Arab somehow because of the
religion. Most of the people think that Arabic language is the language of God because
the Qur’an is written in Arabic. They believe that in the second life all nations will speak
in Arabic. Most of the people in my country respect Arabic language more than their own
language. But now we have started to think in different way. I am one of these poets, but
there are a limited number of secular poets. Because you have to be very brave to write
on this subject. And this feeling is reflected in my poems, a few words in one poem or
sometimes in the whole poem. You can feel this in a lot of my poems.