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MT: As a person, he cannot say anybody who influenced him. But Kurdish
folklore songs affected him. He always feels he is indebted to them, which is there in the
old methods and these things of Kurds.
EM: Is there anything that you think that will be useful in my analysis of Kurdish
poetry, or his poetry specifically?
MT: He says you can make benefit of many printed things that are written about
his own poetry, like masters theses and graduation papers by undergraduate students in
4 th year and also some printed books. So you can see many like texts or subjects written
about them. Otherwise he doesn’t know exactly what you need. But regarding the
language of Kurdish poetry, if you start from Classical period, Ottomans and Persians,
Afghani, these nations which were not Arabs, they were influenced by Arabic. So you
will see many Arabic words or phrases in their language. This was about 300 to 400 years
ago. The second stage started in the 19 th or 20 th century. Then Kurdish language was
more pure, but it still contained a lot of Persian, Arabic and Turkish words. As for
nowadays, you know that day after day Kurdish language is progressing, becoming more
developed, and the number of those who write in Kurdish is much more than before. You
know, when he started in the 1970s, until the 80s, only nine to ten people used to write in
Bahdini, of course. But now there are hundreds because there are many magazines and
newspapers issued in Kurdish.
EM: Memnun, memnun, ‘Thank you, thank you.’
MT: Ser çava (‘over my eyes,’ an untranslatable Kurdish idiom). Thank you.