Kurdish Institute of Istanbul
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kurdish Institute of Istanbul or Enstîtuya Kurdî Ya Stenbolê, founded in 1992, is an organization focusing on Kurdish literature, language and culture. Kurdish and Turkish intellectuals such as Musa Anter, Dr. İsmail Beşikçi, Dr. Cemşid Bender, İbrahim Gürbüz and Feqi Huseyn Sağnıç were among the founding members. The institute's main research activities are in the fields of Linguistics, Folklore and History. It publishes a research journal titled Zend every three months. The institute holds courses in the Kurdish language and provides certificates of translation into/from Kurdish [1]. It has published a Kurdish-Turkish dictionary written by Zana Farqînî in 2004 [2]. The institute has also re-published many of the classical works in Kurdish literature, including the works of Faqi Tayran [3].
