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Kurdish political figure (1919–1988)

Nûredîn Zaza (born 15 February 1919 – 7 October 1988) was a Kurdish politician, writer and poet. He was a co-founder of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria and a founding member of the Kurdish Institute of Paris.^[1]

Biography

Born in 1919 to a middle-class family^[2] in Maden, Elazığ in the years preceding the fall of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, he saw his father and brother get arrested by the Atatürk regime for having supported the Sheikh Said rebellion and the Ararat rebellion.

In 1930, he was sent into exile to Syria together with his brother Ahmed Nafez Zaza.^[3] There, the brothers found support from the Bedir Khan family.^[4]

After spending a year in jail in British Iraq, he went to Beirut and later Switzerland for his studies.

In Switzerland, he also founded an association for Kurdish students in Europe before returning to Syria. He also wrote for the magazine Ha