This book in your hands is the first book of the series that was prepared as a result of this work. The unique effort behind this work is evident from the content of the book and the introduction of the author, so the appreciation of the readers. Teacher Önen's work is as important as its content, as well as the story behind it.
Mr. Önen has started this work with the dream of Kurdish children studying geography in their own language. The book is as much a geography book as it is a story of the resistance of the people of a geography that is supposed to be left untouched and without the past. Colonialists rename everything from rivers to mountains, from trees and berries to the organisms that live on them to make a geography their own forever.
In this way, they want to keep the people away from his geography and from his mountains, rivers and nature, which became a shelter for his love, faith and struggles. Against this, hundreds of Kurdish writers have spent their lives researching and writing about the history of Kurdistan, its geography and culture, and have fought against this policy of depopulation and uprooting.
Unfortunately, despite the great work that they have done, because their work was not taken care of, many of them have faced disappearance in the sad pages of our history despite their work. Some of them have reached a level of their work with great difficulty and have faced great problems in publishing and bringing them to the public. Today there are still many male and female researchers facing these difficulties. Many people have done their own research and published it, unfortunately their work has not been appreciated enough. Through this book, we, in the person of the teacher, offer our thanks to all of these people, whether we know their names or not.
As Ismail Beşikcı Foundation, we thank those people who, despite not getting the attention they deserve, tirelessly pursued their dreams.
We want our readers to know that when we implement our publication policy, we always take this matter into consideration and we will try to highlight the work of those people. Administration of Ismail Beşikcî Foundation