Kurdish PEN

The Kurdish PEN Centre eV is an association of Kurdish writer. It is part of the international writers' association PEN The Kurdish PEN Centre was proposed in 1988 at a conference in Cambridge by a native of Turkey, Kurdish- German writer Hüseyin Erdem. Other founding members were Mehmed Uzun, Yayla Monk Bucak, Abdurrahman Nakshabandy, Hiiseyn Kartal, Emine Erdem and Haydar Isik.

In spring 1990 the approval was granted as a club by the district court and tax office in Cologne. In Cologne is also the headquarters of the association. By 2013, the chairman Zaradachet Hajo was. His successor is Seyhmus Önal, in Diyarbakir, Kurdish and Amed, lives and seals.

Publications, there are Kurdish, German, English and Spanish in the four languages.

The Kurdish PEN Centre aims to offices in Iraq and Turkey. 2005, the club organized a conference on cultural diversity in Diyarbakir.