Musa Anter

Mûsa Anter (* 1920 Mardin; † 20. September 1992 Diyarbakir) also Apê Musa (uncle Musa) mentioned is a Kurdish writer and intellectual. He came 1920 in the village Zivingê into Nusaybin/Mardin into the world. Its father died as it still another child was. It buildup with its nut/mother. It in Mardin and the High School in Adana visited the primary school. To it it went studying after Istanbul around philosophy. While its study became acquainted with he many Kurdish students. Later it changed from philosophy to law. At the university began his political activities. 1944 he married the daughter of the large entrepreneur Abdurrahim Zapsu and gets two sons named Anter and Dicle and a daughter named Rewşen. It becomes the publisher several magazines, which concern themselves with the Kurdish problem, among other things Ileri Yurt in Diyarbakir. 1959 he is arrested together with others and remains 6 months inhafiert. In detention it writes its first book Birîna Reş. In the 60's it joins that linking a Turkish party. 1971 he is again arrested. 1976 it returns to its village and remains there until 1989. from there it returns to istanbul and wrote weierthin for Kurdish magazines like e.g. for Welat /Heimat, Ülke /Land, Özgur Gündem /Freie agenda and Özgur of jokes /Freies country. Here in Istanbul he is joint founder of the per-Kurdish HEP and the Kurdish institute Istanbul. To 20. September 1992 he is kidnapped in Diyarbakir and shot later. It was the goal of Turkish secret services, which on new arrangement of the government Kurdish businessmen and intellectual one murdered, in order to suffocate so the Kurdish movement.

books

• Birîna Reş (the black wound) - 1959
• Ferhenga Kurdî (Kurdish dictionary) - Istanbul, 1967
• Hatıralarım/my memoirs, volume 1 - Istanbul, 1991
• Hatıralarım/my memoirs, volume 2 - Istanbul, 1992
• Çinara min - Istanbul