Munzur Çem (born Hüseyin Beysülen; 1945 – 11 December 2022) was a
Kurdish
Kurdish may refer to:
*Kurds or Kurdish people
*Kurdish language
** Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji)
**Central Kurdish (Sorani)
**Southern Kurdish
** Laki Kurdish
*Kurdish alphabets
*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:
**Southern ...
writer and journalist who published a number of publications on various topics pertaining to
Kurds
Kurds (), or the Kurdish people, are an Iranian peoples, Iranic ethnic group from West Asia. They are indigenous to Kurdistan, which is a geographic region spanning southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northeastern Syri ...
. His work includes a collection of interviews of survivors and descendants of the
Dersim massacre
The Dersim massacre, also known as Dersim genocide, was carried out by the Turkish military over the course of three operations in the Dersim Province (renamed Tunceli) against Kurdish rebels of Alevi faith, and civilians in 1937 and 1938. A ...
conducted in 1999.
Biography
Çem was born in
Kiğı
Kiğı (; ) is a town and seat of the Kiğı District of Bingöl Province in Turkey. The mayor is Hikmet Özüağ ( AKP).
The town is populated by Kurds of the Giransor tribe and had a population of 2,926 in 2021.
Neighborhoods
The town is d ...
in 1945 and went to school in
Nazımiye
Nazımiye (), formerly known as Kızıl Kilise (, ), is a municipality and seat of the Nazımiye District of Tunceli Province in Turkey. It had a population of 1,262 in 2021. It is populated by Zazas, Zaza Kurds of the Arel and Lolan (tribe), Lol ...
. He graduated as a health officer in 1971. During his education, he published newspaper articles and in school and later for a Kurdish newspaper in
Ankara
Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and List of national capitals by area, the largest capital by area in the world. Located in the Central Anatolia Region, central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5,290,822 in its urban center ( ...
. In 1977, Çem founded the newspaper ''Roja Welat'' but the ban on the
Kurdish
Kurdish may refer to:
*Kurds or Kurdish people
*Kurdish language
** Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji)
**Central Kurdish (Sorani)
**Southern Kurdish
** Laki Kurdish
*Kurdish alphabets
*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:
**Southern ...
language impeded him from publishing. When the newspaper ''Dengê Komkarî'' was founded in 1979 by Kurdish migrants in Germany, Çem became a contributor from the beginning. Çem later moved to Sweden in 1984.
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1945 births
2022 deaths
People from Kiğı
Kurdish writers
20th-century Kurdish writers