Mehmed Emîn Bozarslan (1934-2026), Kurdish vernacular intellectual By Martin van Bruinessen

https://www.academia.edu/169552161/Mehmed_Em%C3%AEn_Bozarslan_1934_2026_Kurdish_vernacular_intellectual?email_work_card=title Mehmed Emîn Bozarslan (1934-2026) was a productive Kurdish writer and pioneer of the Kurdish cultural and political revival in Turkey. Not educated in state schools but in traditional medreses, he wrote about the social and economic underdevelopment of Turkey's Kurdish region and published Turkish translations of the classics Mem û Zîn and Sharafnama. After seeking exile in Sweden in 1978, he published twenty books in Kurmanji, reprinted and translated Kurdish journals of the early twentieth century, and compiled the largest and most comprehensive dictionary of Kurmanji. ...