JINHA

NEWS CENTER- She becomes the most important representative of revolutionary art with her white scarf by trying to share the pain of women with her songs. 24 years have passed after Hozan Mizgîn whose voice resounded over the mountains. Mizgîn's compositions have continued to be used as lullaby to Kurdish babies to sleep and they are still a scream for the freedom of young women.

Hozan Mizgîn (Gurbet Aydın) died this day 24 years ago. She was born in Batman in 1962. Shortly before the 1980 coup, she had joined the Kurdish Freedom Movement. Mizgîn had given great effort in developing and organizing the art in Europe in 1983. She had taken part in the work of the foundation of Hunerko. Then, she had turned her face to mountains. Mizgîn died in a clash erupted in the Tatvan district of Bitlis on May 11, 1992. Her songs such as 'Lo Hevalo' and 'Hawar Gundîno' are still sung by many people, even if she died 24 years ago. Mizgîn followed the singer Ayşe Şan, who fought against the roles attributed to women like her. Mizgîn listened Ayşe Şan's songs and sang them.

The PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan described Hozan Mizgîn as follows: "She was a small girl created by the PKK. She was our friend, who joined us at a young age. She was worthy of the PKK. She never reversed with the line of PKK."

Group of Communities in Kurdistan (KCK) Executive Council member Ali Haydar Kaytan met Mizgîn in 1981. He said, "Mizgîn was a woman, artist and revolutionary. She was representative the most painful period of Kurdish women's history. We can describe her as the wise person of pain. She embodied these three characteristic in her own personality."

Mizgîn shared all information she learned by learning and living with her family. Mizgîn's big sister Şükran Akşe had said in an interview that, "Many of our friends had been detained before the coup on September 12. They had been wanted by police, too. So, she hadn't come to home for one year even if she had been in the city. Mizgîn had carried the messages of Êgit."

Şükran said, "Mizgîn had beautiful voice and she often sang the songs. She had asked me to repeat the songs." Şükran said that Mizgîn had called home and said her mother that she missed her one week before she died. "I miss you all very much, especially you mother. Mother comes here, I want to see you." said Mizgîn to her mother. Mizgîn died died in a clash erupted in the Tatvan district of Bitlis on May 11, 1992. However, her songs are still alive and encourage the women.

(gc/gd)