Those who wrote this memory
Figures
Twelve figures who shaped — in ink, sword or film — the face of modern Kurdish memory.
Politician
Qazi Muhammad
1893 – 1947
A Kurdish Iranian political and religious leader, born in Mahabad in 1893. On 22 January 1946 he proclaimed the Kurdish Republic of Mahabad,...
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Jalal Talabani
1933 – 2017
An Iraqi Kurdish statesman, born in Kelkan in 1933. He founded the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in 1975 and in 2005 became the first Kurdish...