I am Kurdish ( أنا كردي )

I challenge poverty, privation, pain. 

I resist times of oppression with strength.
I have courage.
I do not love angel eyes, skin white as marble.
I love the rocks, the hills, the peaks lost among the clouds.
I challenge misfortune, misery, solitude 

And I shall never be a slave of the enemy, never grant him treaty!

I challenge batons, chains, torture. 

And even if my body lies torn in pieces,
With all my strength 

I shall scream: I am Kurdish.

--- Hemin Mukriyani

Kurds are an ethnic group indigenous to a region called Kurdistan spanning parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria. They have long sought the creation of an independent Kurdish nation due to historic repression and the denial of autonomy. Despite partial autonomy in Iraq and Syria, the demand for a separate nation remains unresolved, with Kurdish nationalism still actively suppressed in several countries