Sharif Pasha from Slêmani, was appointed as the Ottoman Empire’s ambassador to Sweden – Stockholm – in 1890. He served in that position for ten years. Sharif Pasha was a Kurdish patriot and was the one who delivered Sheikh Mahmoud Barzanji’s letter to the Lausanne Consulate.
Yesterday, they claimed Newroz as theirs, and now they are claiming our dance.
T*rks without culture and history are slowly and publicly stealing Kurdish dance, and soon they will spread propaganda claiming it as a 300,000-year-old T*rkish dance.