Mina Khanim was born in 1908 in Mahabad, Iran. She lost her father and uncle during World War I and the Russian invasion of Kurdistan and Iran. In 1927 and 1928, she met the Kurdish leader Qazi Mohammed and married…
Category: Women’s Biographies
Sekîne Cansız, alias Sara, a leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), was assassinated in Paris, France, on January 9, 2013, by the Turkish state and its allies, along with two other female activists. Cansız’s martyrdom had a huge impact…
Fetane Walidi was born in 1953 in the city of Sine, in Eastern Kurdistan. She is one of the most famous singers in Sine and Eastern Kurdistan. Her father, Mohammed Sharif Walidi, was a famous singer in Sine. Fetane had…
Jina Emini (July 20, 2000, Saqqiz, Eastern Kurdistan – September 16, 2022, Tehran, Iran), known in Persian as Masha Emini, was a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who was arrested by Iranian morality police on September 13, 2022, on the grounds that…
Mir Khanzad was a military commander and ruler of the Soran Emirate in the late 16th or early 17th century. This Kurdish Emirate was established by “Kalos Bag” in 1399. Mir Kalos Bag was from Selahaddin Ayubi’s family and his…
Leyla Walî Hasan, also known as Viyan Soran, was born in Sulaymaniyah in 1981. She is from the Jaff tribe and attended primary and secondary school in Sulaymaniyah. Viyan Soran was dissatisfied with the social system of her region, and…
Encum Yamulki is the daughter of Mustafa Yamulki Pasha. Mustafa Yamulki was born in 1866 in the city of Sulaymaniyah and married Safiye Khanima, the daughter of Hussein Pasha and the sister-in-law of Said Pasha, in 1888. Said Pasha is…
Leyla Zana was born on May 3, 1961, to a Kurdish family in Silvan, Diyarbakır Province, in southeastern Turkey. At the age of 14, she married her cousin Mehdi Zana, who three years later, in 1977, became mayor of Diyarbakır,…
Maryam Khan was born in 1904 in the village of Dergul in the Botan region of Kurdistan. Despite many difficulties in her life, she has been able to maintain a high personality. One of the characteristics of Maryam Khan was…
Ahlam Mansour, the Iraqi Kurdish short story writer and novelist, is considered one of the most prominent female writers who enriched Kurdish and Iraqi literature during the 1970s and 1980s. She was also one of the female voices who fought…