Kurdish Institute of Istanbul
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Kurdish Institute of Istanbul , founded in 1992, is an organization focusing on Kurdish
Kurdish language
Kurdish is a dialect continuum spoken by the Kurds in western Asia. It is part of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages....

 literature, language and culture. Kurdish and Turkish intellectuals such as Musa Anter
Musa Anter
Musa Anter, also known by nickname "Ape Musa" , , was a dissident Kurdish-Turkish writer and activist. He was a nationalist intellectual and murdered in September 1992....

, Yaşar Kaya, Feqî Huseyîn Sagniç, İsmail Beşikçi
Ismail Besikçi
İsmail Beşikçi is a Turkish scholar. He is a PEN Honorary Member. He has served 17 years in prison on propaganda charges stemming from his writings about the Kurdish population in Turkey....

, Abdurrahman Dürre, İbrahim Gürbüz, Cemşîd Bender ve Süleyman İnanoğlu were among the founding members.

The institute's main research activities are in the fields of linguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....

, folklore
Folklore
Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The study of folklore is sometimes called...

 and history
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

. It publishes a research journal titled Zend every three months. The institute holds courses in the Kurdish language and provides certificates of translation into/from Kurdish http://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/member8918.htm.

It has published a Kurdish
Kurdish language
Kurdish is a dialect continuum spoken by the Kurds in western Asia. It is part of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages....

-Turkish
Turkish language
Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...

 dictionary (Büyük Türkçe-Kürtçe sözlük / Ferhanga Mezın Tırkî Kurdî and Büyük Kürtçe-Türkçe Sözlük / Ferhanga Mazın Kurdî Turkî) prepared by Zana Farqînî in 2004. The institute has also re-published many of the classical works in Kurdish literature, including the works of Faqi Tayran
Faqi Tayran
Faqi Tayran is considered as one of the great classic Kurdish poets and writers. His real name was "Mir Mihemed". He was born in a village called "Miks" in the Hakkari region of the Ottoman Empire...

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