Istanbul Kurdish Institute has published a new “Dictionary of Kurdish Proverbs”. This dictionarry  which was prepared by Mehmet Oncu contains more than 5000 Kurdish proeverbs.  As it is known proverbs are part of every spoken language and folk literature, originating in oral tradition. Often a proverb is found with variations in many different parts of the world and some proverbs have a special story. If you like to understand the basis of language, culture and psychology of a soceity you have to look into their folk literature; especially their idioms and proverbs. 
For Kurdish Institute of Istanbul to publish such materials is very important, because it is a duity to collect every parts of Kurdish folk literature and to save all of them from assimilation. Therefore we published this dictionary and we present it to the Kurdish people and all the people who like to learn the Kurdish language.

We, as Istanbul Kurdish Institute, have just published a new book including speeches and conversations within “Conference of Middle East Literature and Multiculturalism” which was an organization of the Institute in cooperation with Diyarbakýr Metropolitan Municipality and some NGO’s on behalf of First Diyarbakýr Literature Days.

Literature has an important role and place in the history of the humanity. For this reason, it has a considerable place in people’s life. Literature is the color and harmony of social life. The development level of the societies depends on their literary, artistic and cultural development level.

I have completed my Kurdish-Turkish dictionary project after a long and hard working period. I am very happy about that. After the Turkish-Kurdish dictionary work, for this time my objective was to prepare a Kurdish-Turkish dictionary. Here I am happy because I have reached my aim and finished this dictionary.

It is really hard to be in a dictionary work. Beyond this hard work, you have to face with reproaches and complaints. In spite of your all efforts, it is not possible to make everyone happy. I was aware of this as I started to this project. So, I want to leave all critics of this work to specialists, all rights of criticism belong to them.