Yûnis Reuf known as Dildar, was a Kurdish

Kurdish people

The Kurdish people, or Kurds , are an Iranian people native to the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey...

 poet and political activist. He was born on February 20, 1918 in the town of Koi Sanjaq

Koi Sanjaq

The town Koi Sanjaq is located in the Erbil Governorate of Iraqi Kurdistan, close to the Iranian border.Wallace Lyon, travelling through the town in 1923, compared it to Sulaimani and noted that it was a centre for tobacco...

 located in the Mosul Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 (present-day: in Arbil Governorate). first he started school at [Ranye]. After finishing high school in Kirkuk

Kirkuk

Kirkuk is a city in Iraq and the capital of Kirkuk Governorate.It is located in the Iraqi governorate of Kirkuk, north of the capital, Baghdad...

, he moved to Baghdad

Baghdad

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, where he studied Law

Law

Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...

. in 1945 he finished law school.
He wrote Ey Reqîb

Ey Reqîb

"Ey Reqîb" is the Kurdish national anthem. It was written by the Kurdish poet and political activist, Dildar in 1938, while in jail. "Ey Reqîb" literally means "Oh, Enemy", in reference to the jail guards in the prison where Dildar was held and tortured who symbolize the occupying countries of...

 (Kurdish

Kurdish people

The Kurdish people, or Kurds , are an Iranian people native to the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey...

 national anthem) in 1938, when he was in prison.
Dildar died young at the age of 31 of heart problems. However, he lived to see his poem "Ey Reqîb" adopted as the Kurdish national anthem

National anthem

A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history, traditions and struggles of its people, recognized either by a nation's government as the official national song, or by convention through use by the people.- History :Anthems rose to prominence...

. It was first played and sung in 1946 on the proclamation of a short-lived Kurdistan republic in Mahabad

Mahabad

-Culture:Muhammad Qazi translated more than 70 important literary works into Persian. Other writers and poets have hailed from Mahabad in the 19th and 20th century including Wafaei , Hejar , Hêmin , Abdorrahamn Zabihi and Giw Mukriyani...

. Today the song widely spread in all occupied Kurdistan.
an example of his poetries
كوردستاني خوش نيشتماني جوان
تو قيبلةكاهي مني بيكومان
جاوم بشكوتوي شاخةكانتة
فيري زياني باخةكانتة
دةنكي شمشالي شوانةكانت
زريق و باقي جوانةكانت
قاسبةي كةواني قةد كيوةكانت
خورةي ئاوةكةي نشيوةكانت