
Saturday, August 22, 2009
kurdish songs : if you are able to understand!.

Kurdish is a language spoken in many different territories and countries. It is estimated that more than 40 million people around world can speak Kurdish as a native language. As a Kurdish person, I had made some researches on Kurdish English in order to have more information on my own mother tongue. Because even though I am a Kurdish, but my Kurdish is still too rusty and poor. That is the result of being without-Kurdish education. I have grown up in Istanbul and don’t have chance to use Kurdish so much. It is good for me to not forget Kurdish totally thanks to my mother. My anne always has talked with me in Kurdish whether I reply in Turkish or in Kurdish. So If I still know some Kurdish, that is because of the effort of my mother to teach us to not forget our own mother tongue.
I don’t remember but as my parents have been saying, Kurdish was banned in Turkey for many years. You could not listen your own songs and could not speak your language in public places. It must be so interesting. Whatsit… It is not banned today and you can sign up a learning Kurdish course or study Kurdish major in universities. Nobody would say something only because you listen or sing a Kurdish song. what s more, it is opened a Kurdish state channel as well. You can watch anything in your mother tongue if you are a Kurd. Anyway…
What I want to do here is not giving some political messages. I just want to write something on Kurdish music and songs. I don’t know what had been banned by the state but if they did it for music, I would break the all rules as many people did as I know. Music and art should not be an instrument to the political problems and matters. They should be regarded as different and kept away from political problems even though they can be used as instruments to damage state’s policy.
In Turkey, Kurdish population is large and they have been living with Turks since centuries. So they intermixed with Turks. Because, the official language in Turkey is Turkish, so Kurdish people also have education in Turkish and can speak Turkish same as their native language and sometimes even better than their own language. As I can see around myself, many Turkish people also know some simple Kurdish words. They may got them from songs, because most of them like Kurdish songs. They don’t understand, but do we get the songs which we listen in English or in another language? I am not sure..
It is good to listen various songs from different places but if you can understand the lyrics, it will be better. How many of us can take pleasure in the songs that we cant understand? A song can be listened only coz of its melody but lyrics also important as much as melody. We Kurdish of course can take pleasure in Turkish songs but Turkish people can not do it in Kurdish songs, they may can do it to some extent. I am sure that if they could understand, they would love to listen more and more.
No one can stay idle after listening the lament for the dead people in Halepce genocide. You will cry if you listen from Siwan Perver. There are many fairly well and real Kurdish singers and artists. i can not list all of them here but some of them that known more around world are Agire Jiyan, Ciwan Haco, Aram Tigran and Siwan Perver.
Whether crying or having fun, Kurdish songs are worth to listen. I respect all Kurdish poets, singers and movie makers. They are trying to keep alive Kurdish language without damaging people.
Lastly, I wanna let you know some songs that you may like and listen.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Sunday, August 16, 2009
source of hapinness:family
My family is big. I have 3 elder sisters and one brother; but they are all marriaed already and have children. So there are only 5 people at home now.
Last day I and my mother talked about our family during dinner. She was feeling sad and said
-After you went to china, your brother and sisters married and left from home. we here left only 5 people -actually a normal family should be consist of at most 5 member as for me :) -
My parents love their girls so much and felt sad when they married and left home. According as my mother said, my dad almost cries when they start to eat dinner without girls. I also same with my father and feel sad when I am without girls. we were a big and happy family but now we fell to pieces. everyone in a place now. we cant reunion properly. I will organize a great and big reunion part in the near future. My sisters are my all. I want and wish a good and healthy future for them.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
the language of colors
Tell me your color, I will tell you your personality.Today I read a news on the paper that told your favorite color is related with your personality. I already knew this. My favorite colors are black and white. I always wear black and white T-shirts,socks and trousers, even shoes as well. Sometimes people ask me if I dont have any other color clothes, I say that I love that s why I always wear these two colors.
I was curious about the personalities of people who love black and white, coz I am one of them as well. The article diveded colors into two groups... bright colors are red,yellow,orange... - and sad colors consist of green, blue, purple, black... and so on. Every color tell something about its lover’s state of mind. What does black tell about me? :) It said that I am authoritative and bossy if I like black. It said black is the sign of power,ability and autority... I dont know how much does it right but there must be partly correct as for me. Anyway ... let s have a look for white...

How about white? What does white tell about my personality and state of my mind? It said people impressed so much from the people who like white, because white is the sign of sincere, purity,innocency,honesty and so on... This one is almost totally correct for me, because I cant deceive people even if I want. Something prevents me from doing so and it should be my conscience and heart.
Red is the sign of being friendly and merciful, yellow is the sign of being intellectual, orange is braveness and loving adventures, black is the sign of being authority, blue is popularity and so on... So does your favorite color give any clue about your personality? It gives to me...
Saturday, July 25, 2009
life is better without smoking, isnt it?
Cigarette is banned in Turkey as from 19 july. You cant light a joyfull cigarette after eating dinner in a restaurant or while sipping your cafe or during playing cards or backgammon with friends in a cafe house anymore. Turkish style coffe houses are known as the place where you can play cards,drink tea,watch football matches and pass the time of day by chatting. Almost all of people who go the coffe houses are smoking. What s more, most of them complain about being out of a job, I hope this ban will help them to go out and try to find a job because passing whole day in a coffehouse never make you have a job. You must go after jobs, if you wait a job to come a coffehouse and find you, dont wait for nothing coz ıt will never find you. :) anyway .The expression –smoke like a Turk- may be history soon coz I think the ratio of smokers will decrease after this ban. At least I hope so. I dont know how many people smoke in Turkey but the number of smokers are not a few. Many people around me smoke though I hate smoke and smokers. Most of them are my relatives and there is no way but be present in same place with them. Personally, I dont like to accopany with a smokers since the midle-school. Unfortunately the age of starting to smoke has become almost 13. I dont know how I didnt start to smoke in middle-school as most of my friend was smoking. Oh God was protected me I think. You can start to smoke or drink alcohol or get any kind of bad habit thanks to(!) friends. Thanks God that my all friends dont smoke and drink.
As I said, my all friends dont smoke and drink, so I am really very easy annoyed of smoke of cigarette and smell of alcohol. Especially when I think that the smoke comes out from other mouth and go in my nose, auww... I never find a good side of smoking. It s totally harmful and damaging to both budget and health ... There are plus damages of smoking like 69 tl penalty after smoking in closed area. :)) be careful and never say - so, what will happen if I smoke here!. hehe

It will be great for Turkey and Turkısh people. Turkish people will be more healthy from 19 july. As health minister declared, over 100.000 people die from smoking every year. So people wont die anymore from smoking. Is there any good news from this?
It s said that the ban can affect the economic situation and many people can lose their job, but health is more important than everything. People can find another job but cant get his life again. No matter what happens, many people support cigarette ban. They can eat their meal beneath a clear weather and shopping in a good environment.
Although some opposition, most of Turks are happy with ban even if they are smokers. Many people want to quit but await for an excuse, and this is a great excuse for quitting . come on! It s time to quit smoking. I wish smokeless days for Turkey. We all are deserve to live beneath a clear weather. Thanks to government for this award.
Friday, May 29, 2009
I want my blog :((
Today most of us are aware of the importance of blogging. Many people share their knowledge and experience via such websites. Everybody cannot afford to get a domain of course. So blogs is a solution in such cases. Domains are not very expensive today but people still prefer to use blogs. I think getting a blog is better than having domain. You can train and improve your writing skill via blogs and share your ideas and writings with everybody by this way. In the days of old, just some of fashion people (aristocrats) could publish their ideas. But today everybody can do it. That is a great matter. It is not only for sharing something, but also a great way to meet new people. It is so easy to have a blog. Just takes a few minutes. I recommend everyone to get a blog. I too have been blogging for years.I had created my first blog on blogcu.com three years ago. I wanted to write something and published them on it. But long afterwards, I went cold on writing and forgot my password on blogcu.com. I used to add something on it but they were not my own writings. So it was not so enjoyable and joyful for me to deal with it. I quited to manage the blog later on. I don’t know how it happened but last month I reopened a new blog. But it was not on blogcu.com, I opened the new one on the blogspot.com. It is more useful than blogcu. It is belong to google inc., so I thought I would use it free of problems. But last week when I tried to open blogger.com, it couldn’t open. I thought my computer caused the problem, but after trying at some different place and times, I couldn’t believe my eyes but it seemed that blogger was banned in China. I was really surprised. I never thought that blogger can be banned but it was. I had no feeling to write any more. I hate prohibitions.
It has been more than ten days that blogger is banned in china like youtube. Yeah, youtube also has been banned for one year. We got used to live without youtube already, coz there are youtube’s alternatives here such as youku.com or tudou.com or a Turkish video portals like izlesene.com. But youtube has comprised all videos on other websites I mentioned above. So it was so convenient to use, now I cant find all videos I want on other video portals. Anyway, let youtube alone, china banned blogger as well unfortunately. I could not log in my blogger account for days, but fortunately I found another way to enter the blog now. Thanks to tunnal websites that I can log in. But worse luck, I can not add photo and video beside my writings when I published them on the blog. So that is why my last several articles published without picture and video. As you can see below, I published them unattractively. I hope that blogger will open again soon.
It can be used in other countries as I know. So I don’t quit writing. I am still writing. After getting back to Turkiye this summer, I want to rearrange them and make them more attractive by adding related article photos and videos. And hope to find blogger as open after returning to China. It cannot be stopped. Yeah it is unstoppably spreading everywhere. Many people use such websites and they may criticize such prevention. So the prohibition can last one year at the most. Because, blocking is not the solution.



