Munzur Çem (born Hüseyin Beysülen; 1945 – 11 December 2022) was a
Kurdish
Kurdish may refer to:
*Kurds or Kurdish people
*Kurdish languages
*Kurdish alphabets
*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:
**Southern Kurdistan
**Eastern Kurdistan
**Northern Kurdistan
**Western Kurdistan
See also
* Kurd (dis ...
writer and journalist who published a number of publications on various topics pertaining to
Kurds ug:كۇردلار
Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Ir ...
. His work includes a collection of interviews of survivors and descendants of the
Dersim massacre conducted in 1999.
Biography
Çem was born in
Kiğı
Kiğı ( ku, Gêxî, hy, Քղի, translit=Kʿġi) is a town and district of Bingöl Province in the Eastern Anatolia Region, Turkey, Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. The mayor is Hikmet Özüağ (Justice and Development Party (Turkey), AKP). Th ...
in 1945 and went to school in
Nazımiye
Nazımiye (, or briefly ''Qisle''; ku, Qisle, italic=yes) is a municipality (''belde'') and seat of the Nazımiye District of Tunceli Province in Turkey. It had a population of 1,262 in 2021.
It is populated by Kurds of the Arel tribe. The mai ...
. 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 ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and over 5.7 million in Ankara Province, maki ...
. In 1977, Çem founded the newspaper ''Roja Welat'' but the ban on the
Kurdish
Kurdish may refer to:
*Kurds or Kurdish people
*Kurdish languages
*Kurdish alphabets
*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:
**Southern Kurdistan
**Eastern Kurdistan
**Northern Kurdistan
**Western Kurdistan
See also
* Kurd (dis ...
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 people