Newroz Pîroz Be!

“After the Kurds succeeded in overthrowing Dehak, they lit fire and announced their victory to everyone. For more than two thousand years, Kurds have been celebrating their victory over Tiran by burning fires in the tops of the Mountains.”

Kürtler ve Newroz

Kürtlerin Newroz kutlama geleneği Kawa'dan önce Avesta'da Dünyanın ilk mitolojik insanı olarak geçen Keyumars'a dayanır.

Keyumars (Kürt isminin buradan modern halini aldığı söylenir) Rewanduz dağlarında Diana isimli şeytanla savaştı.

Keyumars ve Kürtler…

1939, Portakal toplayan Kürt kadını, Kaheti bölgesi, Gürcistan

Güne “Dere Üstü Islah ve Restorasyon” Projesiyle yenilenen #Bitlis şehriyle başlayalım.

Hüsrev Paşa Hamamı, Hezo Hanı, Bitlis Kalesi, Begiye Mescidi, Meydan Kapısı, Tarihi sokak ve onlarca köprünün restore edildiği projeyle Bitlis turizmin yeni gözde şehri oluyor.

Yeni…

Kurdish men and women in traditional clothes, Caucasus, 1898.

The clothing of men and women are quite beautiful and eye-catching.

Archive of Archaeologist Baron J. de Baye (1853-1931)

“Kurds are extremely good and polite people. I loved them so much that I learned Kurdish and fell in love with Kurdish...'

St. Petersburg Univ, 1867, Petr Ivanovich

The flag of the Kurdistan Regional Government is sold as a 'mat' on the shopping site called Aliexpress.com. We demand an immediate correction of this behavior, which is an insult to the values ​​of the Kurdish people.

Kürdistan Bölgesel Yönetiminin resmî bayrağı olan…

“We heard from the slaves that these warriors and fearless people who dominate the mountains and the passes cannot be dealt with. They were called Carduchians (Kurds). They stopped our army and forced us to retreat.”

400 BC, Xenophon, Anabasis, The March of the Ten Thousand

1800s, Saladin Citadel, Cairo

The castle was built by the Kurdish Sultan Saladin Ayyubi.

“In the end, the Arabs lost control of Egypt; and Medes; who were called the Kurds, they dominated Egypt.''

Armenian historian Heyton

1930s, Yazidi Kurds in their traditional clothes, Sinjar

Pira Dehderî (known as the Ten-Eyed Bridge).

It was built 957 years ago by the Marwani Kurdish State on the Tigris river.

Today, it is among the historical heritages visited by tourists.

1950, Kurdish tents belonging to nomads around Mount Ararat.

'The Kurds were brave and hospitable. They also looked at the people of Ararat in a different way.'

The Legend of Mount Ararat, Yaşar Kemal

1970, Sivas - Kangal, Yellice Village, Alevi Kurdish men...

Kurdish women in traditional clothes, Komaşîr (Celikhan) - Semsûr (Adiyaman).

Nobility and beauty...

1949, Kurdish men and women, Armenia.

Yazidi Kurds were forced to migrate to Armenia and the Caucasus from Bitlis, Siirt, Agri, Batman etc. regions in 1840, 1850, 1860 and finally in 1915.

1910, Two Kurdish men in traditional clothes

1950, Kurdish couple, Tbilisi - Georgia

1980, postcard sent to Germany with the note 'Drinking tea in the tent of the Kurds, a stateless people…”

Today, May 21, is International World Tea Day.