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it was Kurdistan. But after a while, he was the first one. In the 80s, he by himself, as
something unique for him, changed Kurdish poetry into something psychological―to
make like a psychological revolution inside yourself. He took this angle in poetry, I
mean. So if you see, for example, realistic poetry, there was a group of people who wrote
realistic poetry. But he found himself alone in writing psychological poetry. And then in
1985, he started his modern movement in poetry. He wrote about death, deterioration: the
names are Helweşîan, ‘Deteriorated,’ Melen, 215 Bûn, ‘Being.’ These are names of his
poems.
And then in 1991, a huge change happened in all Kurdish people. It was
something that was not expected, an unexpected change. All the ideas, mentalities, values
of the Kurdish man at that time were changed and new things came in their places. All
the educated people at that time had a socialist background, like Lenin; but at that time
everything was deteriorating, let’s say, changing. The war against Iran was ended and the
chemical weapons ended. America warred against Iraq so that it would come out of
Kuwait. And the uprising started, and then the Kurdish people saw themselves as free,
without Saddam now. And soon after, a mass immigration happened among Kurds when
they escaped to Turkey in the mountains, and they suffered a lot of starvation and
things―and this was another turning point in Kurdish life. And it was just like a
nightmare or a dream, that America―which was against our beliefs, our ideas―that
America itself came to help us and protect us. And we were peşmerga, ‘Kurdish
military!’ So, we were in Iran and were just like rural people; but then we came into the
civil life in cities. The Kurdish man who was low esteemed before―now he highly
appreciated himself.
Maybe he will make this speech long so that you will know about our
background, why we in Iraq were in a closed society. We didn’t know anything about the
world, through books and things. But after that―after Saddam, 216 or after the uprising
215 Meaning unknown.
216 Saddam Hussein, the fifth president of Iraq.