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Şeyhumus Diken was born in Diyarbakır in 1954. In 1978, he graduated from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration in the Faculty of Political Sciences at Ankara University. After working within the Turkish Ministry of Internal Affairs for three years, he served as a presidential advisor in the Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality. He has served as a board member in various non-governmental organizations. Besides it, Diken has written about urban culture, urban identity and local and oral history in many newspapers such as “Radikal”, “Yeni Yüzyıl” and “Yeni Binyıl”. He is a member of Writers Syndicate of Turkey and Kurdish Writers’ Association. He represented Turkish PEN Writers Association in Diyarbakır, which is the branch of International PEN club. His 13 poetry works have been composed by Yervant Bostancı, who is an Oud artist living in Los Angeles, and recorded as the CD “Taşlar Şahit”. His work “Diyarbekir Hikâyeleri” was made into the play by the Imgesel Düşler Theater, and staged in many places of Turkey. It was also staged by the Diyarbakır State Theater in the Orhan Asena Theater Festival and in the Culture and Art Festival, which was organized by the Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality. Currently, Diken writes columns for “Birgün” newspaper.
Books:
Kürdilihicazkâr Metinler (Ankara: Doruk, 1997)
Güneydoğu′da Sivil Hayat (Istanbul: Metis, 2001)
Tango ve Diyarbakır (Lîs, 2004 Diyarbakır)
İsyan Sürgünleri (Istanbul: İletişim, 2005)
Türkiye′de Sivil Hayat ve Demokrasi (Ankara: Dipnot, 2006)
Sırrını Surlarına Fısıldayan Şehir, Diyarbakır (Istanbul: İletişim, 2002, 6. Baskı 2007)
Taşlar Şahit (Diyarbakır: Lîs Yayınları, 2008)
Diyarbekir Diyarım Yitirmişem Yanarım (Istanbul: İletişim, 2003, 3. Baskı 2009)
Zevalsiz Ömrün Sürgünü Mehmed Uzun (Diyarbakır: Lis Yayınları, 2009)
Diyarbekir El Sallıyor (Diyarbakır: Diyarbakır Tabip Odası, 2009)
Bir Kürdün AKP Okumaları (Istanbul: Evrensel publications, 2009)
Amidalılar, Sürgündeki Diyarbekirliler (Istanbul: İletişim, 2007, 2. Baskı Ekim 2009)
Gittiler İşte (Istanbul: Aras Publication, 2011)
Bir İnsan Hakları Delisi, Rıdvan Kızgın (Ankara: Dipnot Yayıncılık, 2012)
Reference: iletisim.com, tr.wikipedia.org, metiskitap.com, bianet.org, stgm.org.tr |
