Riza Talabani

Sheikh Reza Talabani ( Kurdish Şêx On Rezayi Talebani ) (* 1835 in Kirkuk, † 1910) is a Kurdish poet from Iraq today. Talabani wrote his poems in both Kurdish, Turkish as well as in Persian and Arabic. His works give off a good picture of the life and history in Kirkuk. His poems consist mostly of satire. In one of his poems he remembers his childhood in the Principality Shah Razor, which is now regarded by the Kurds as an important proof of the Kurdish identity of Kirkuk.

As a young man Talabani went to Constantinople Opel. On the way there he visited the grave of the Kurdish Sufi Sheikh Nurredin Brifkani. At the grave, he wore a long poem in Persian. The poem told how he came to the land of Rum from the Kurdish principality Scharezur, whose capital was Kirkuk. Rum was the name for the former (East) Roman Anatolia, but its former rulers were the Ottomans. 1879, the Principality Scharezur was dissolved by the Ottomans and added to the Vilayet of Mosul. Talabani expressed his sorrow and disappointment in a Turkish poem.

Sheikh Reza Talabani is one of the most important Kurdish poet from Iraq. At the time, there are seven editions of his poems, in 1935 and 1946 Baghdad 1935, 1946 Iran, in Sweden in 1996, 1999, Sulaymaniyah and Erbil in 2000.

Source

• Displacement of the population from Kirkuk by Dr. Nuri Talabani in the Internet Archive

• Author
• Kurd
• Person (Ottoman Empire)
• Born in 1835
• Died in 1910
• Man