MAXMUR - Women have produced the weekly Rojev Mexmûr newspaper and the “Little generals of Apê Musa” have distributed it in Maxmur for 10 years.

 

Martyr Rütem Cudi Camp was built in Maxmur for the Kurdish people forcibly displaced 20 years ago. The Kurdish people living in the camp have organized and protected their culture. The women organizing themselves in all areas have improved themselves in journalism, too. The Kurdish journalists such as Deniz Fırat, Rizgar Deniz, Hindistan Penaber, Evin Buldan and Evindar Cudî led the Kurdish press were from this camp and they reported the news in Kurdish language, their native language.

 

The journalists organizing in the camp published the first Kurdish Rojev Mexmur newspaper on December 24, 2006 and they began to publish the newspaper as weekly on September 22, 2008. The newspaper has been produced by the women. Gurbet Tallî, one of the editors of the newspaper, said the newspaper was produced by four women and it was published in Hewler.

 

Female journalists distribute the newspaper along with ‘little generals’

 

Saying that the distribution of the newspaper has been made by children they call as “Little generals of Apê Musa”, Gurbet continued to talk as follows; “We both produce and distribute the newspaper. We have also little distributors. Apê Musa called the children who distributed the newspaper as ‘Little generals’. These children are our generals. We distribute the newspaper along with them.

 

Gurbet expressed that she control and edit the news written by her female colleagues as an editor. Gurbet said they are happy to maintain free press tradition.

 

Apê Musa

 

Kurdish journalist and writer Musa Anter is also known as ‘Apê Musa (Uncle Musa)’. He was assassinated by Turkish JITEM in September 1992.