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Erdogan Announces Turkey’s 2026 Vefa Award for Kurdish Poet Ehmedê Xanî

Türkiye ·

Erdogan announced the recipients on Thursday in a post on his X account. The award honours Xanî for his lasting contribution to Kurdish literature and intellectual thought.

Ehmedê Xanî (1650–1707) was a classical Kurdish poet, best known for the epic romance Mem û Zîn.

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