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EM: Is there anything else you think I should know about analyzing Kurdish
poetry? Are there any other thoughts you have that will help me in analyzing Kurdish
poetry? Things I haven’t asked you.
BS: Yes. (pausing of recording)
EM: What do you see as the ambition, the drive, the desire or things that poets
past, present and future have? What they hope to gain?
BS: In my opinion, if you put most of the Kurdish poets in the same room,
together their ambition would be for Kurdish independence. To have our independent
state which we call dawlet. We want to have our freedom and, according to the human
rights, we have full right to get rid of this situation which was established by Britain after
the First World War. We need to be just like Persian people or Turkish. We need to be an
independent state. Some of the poets―they deal with this subject openly. Some others
like to but don’t write about it for some political reasons maybe. Most of my poems deal
with this subject in a symbolic way, indirectly. So, this is one of the common goals which
all of the Kurdish poets really want to achieve in the future.
The second subject or second desire is social freedom, to get freedom in our life,
especially the freedom of relations between male and female in society. We have really
severe traditions about this subject, and as I think and as I believe, the Kurdish society
before Islam was more free than this time, because the Islam religion limits the
relationship between male and female and love. And I think this doesn’t go with our
nature as a Kurdish people. We need a lot of freedom. We are in the twenty-first century
and it is still forbidden to announce―for any young man and young girl―to announce
that they are in love. It is a crime. Girls are killed now. Some fathers, some families have
to kill their daughters when they feel or they know that she is in love with somebody. We
write indirectly in our poems about this subject. We condemn this type of life. It is not
our life. Really, it is an Arabic or Islamic life which they enforced us to adopt 15
centuries ago. If you read our history before Islam, we were more modern than now. At