Kurdistan (newspaper)

For other uses of Kurdistan, see Kurdistan (disambiguation).

Kurdistan was the first Kurdish newspaper. It was first published in April 22, 1898 in Cairo, Egypt by Mikdad Midhad Badirhan, a member of Kürdistan Teali Cemiyeti. In 1991 scholar Emin Bozarslan republished and translated in modern Turkish a collection of its issues.[1]

Sources

  1. ^ Özoğlu, Hakan (2004). Kurdish notables and the Ottoman state: evolving identities, competing loyalties, and shifting boundaries. SUNY Press. p. 122. ISBN 9780791459935. http://books.google.com/books?id=CttLWEaTrJUC&pg=PA122. Retrieved 19 May 2011.