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In a joint statement released on the 13th anniversary of Kurdish writer Mehmed Uzun’s death, it has been stated, “Mehmed Uzun became a symbol of defiance and started writing in his own mother language in a period when Kurdish language was banned.”

Writer Şeyhmus Diken has written a book about the last fifteen months in Kurdish writer Mehmed Uzun’s life. The book also features an introduction by Yaşar Kemal.

Around 30,000 people joined Kurdish writer Mehmed Uzun’s funeral procession in Diyarbakir on Saturday (13 October).

Prominent Kurdish Writer Uzun, who lived in exile in Sweden for a long time, died yesterday (11 October). His death is a great loss to Kurdish and world literature.