International Journal of Kurdish Studies

Abstract

The issues of Kurdish
Language and Kurdish Language Identity has been highly evident through the
beginnings of twentieth century. The significant changes that took place in
political and cultural aspects in Kurdistan has gave the birth of numerous
journals and magazines which clearly expressed the general circumstances of the
twentieth century. This research under the title "Issue of Literacy and
Kurdish Written Language in Certain Journals and Magazines in the Early
Twentieth Century" aims to provide a wide analysis on the related issues
expressed through the common journals and magazines. The research covers five
journals and magazines issued between1920-1932 and shades light on a number of
efforts done by the Fourth Power (Power of Journalism) to highlight the
language and Kurdish language study issues as a national privileges after the
effects caused by the division of Kurdistan, Iraqi Government establishment and
the British policy in the region. The common challenges can be literacy
encouragement, spelling, language purification and requests to solve schools'
problems, and these challenges will be the discussing topics in the research.
There are many external and internal factors that caused the given challenges,
that's why the writers and journalists boldly and eagerly discussed the
challenges and were part of the solutions by giving suggestions and pointing
the weaknesses through various techniques and evidences.