Silav û rêz temaşevanên hêja. Bi xelekeke nû ji bernameya we, bernameya Gundê Me, em derbasî nav gundekî dîtir dibin. Greetings, dear viewers. With a new episode of your program, the "Our Village" program, we pass into another village.
Vê carê, me berê xwe daye navçeya Bilbilê, û bi taybetî gundê Qotanê. This time, we have headed to the Bilbil district, and specifically the village of Qotanê.
Bi me re bimînin, em ê derbasî nav gund bibin û em ê temaşe bikin. Stay with us, we will pass into the village and we will watch.
Em destpêkê te nas bikin xalo? Shall we get to know you first, uncle?
Ebdilhemîd Şêxo. Kano me Şêxo ye. Ebdilhemîd Şêxo. Our family is Şêxo.
Tu ji gundê Qotanê yî? Are you from Qotanê village?
Ewa. Yes.
Dixwazim ji me re behsa dîroka gund bikî. Dîroka gundê Qotanê, Qotanê çiqas wextî çêbûye, kesên destpêkê hatine kî bûn, malbat li vir derê. I want you to tell us about the history of the village. The history of Qotanê village, when Qotanê was built, who were the first people to come, the families here.
Kerem bike. Go ahead.
Gund teqrîben em kanin bibêjin berî vê bi 300 salî hatiye avakirin. Silav ne li vir bûn. We can say the village was built approximately 300 years ago. They weren't originally from here.
Li vir derê, li bakur, gundek hebû... Gundekî belê bûn. Wê çaxê deh, diwanzdeh mal bûn. Over here, in the north, there was a village... They were a certain village. At that time, there were ten or twelve houses.
Paşê, çûne wê derê, li wir da bûn bîst mal, paşê ji wê û şûn da, vir da, Serî Til, çol bû. Then, they went there, there they became twenty houses, then after that, here, Serî Til, it was a wilderness.
Hatine vir da. Mesela hatina gişta jî, çar pênc malbat in. They came here. For example, their arrival was all together, four or five families.
Hinek hatin vir da, hinek li wir man. Paşê gotin, "Em herin komî hev bin." Wê çaxê gundên din diz û der pir bûn. Some came here, some stayed there. Then they said, "Let's go and gather together." At that time, in other villages, there were many thieves and robbers.
Hatin komî hev bûn. Çar xane serekî hatin girtin. They came and gathered together. Four main houses were established.
Ser du qenterma, qentermê bizanin wekî ha wa. Û derdora wê jî herdu xane qul kirin. Over two arches, you know an arch like this. And around it, they pierced both houses.
Meheneyî dizan, gava dizek hatin sa, manê ji xebere bi hev didin. Because of the thieves, when a thief came, they would inform each other.
Û pezê xwe jî, li ortê gund bû. Û sê rêyên xwe hebûn. Li ber deriyên wan rêyan jî xwe dikişandin, li ser esasê kes pezê giştan nebe. And their sheep were also in the middle of the village. And they had three roads. At the entrances of those roads, they pulled themselves together, basically so that no one could take all the sheep.
Ev a ez ji 1950'yî da eşkera xeber didim te yî. I'm talking to you clearly about this since 1950.
Berî we ra, ez nizanim, ez salî nînim. Ew a rêk û pêk tunebûn. Di hezar û nehsad û pênciyan da, ew rêk û pêk xelas bûn. Çêbû. Before that, I don't know, I wasn't born. Things weren't organized. In 1950, that disorganization ended. It was built.
Wê çaxê hukûmeta Sûrî nû tesîs bû, çêbû. Ew rêk û ji kefercanê da, gî bita evro û bibêra ev a çêkirin. U ga qebele dibirin bi pereyan, Mutehîd hebû, wî qebûl dikirin, wê çaxê çêkincî ta ev a dikirin. At that time, the Syrian government was newly established, it was built. Those roads from Kefercanê to here, they built this. They took it by contract with money, there was a contractor, he accepted it, at that time they built it here.
Berhev dikirin. Paşê, du rê qum anîn li ser kirin. Du rê, wê çaxê, ew a yekem car miqilî(meqde), loq dikirin. They gathered it. Then, they brought sand on it twice. Twice, at that time, they rolled it for the first time.
Loq, riya.. Host: Rê. Man: Rê. Loq dikirin. Bapîrê min rehmetî, wê çaxê, em dibirin ew a derkê û tiştekî hatî, em çûn li loqê li me mandin. 1950. Roll, the road.. Host: Road. Man: Road. They rolled it. My late grandfather, at that time, took us to see it and we went and looked at the roller. 1950.
Ji wê û şûn da paşê Sûrî tesîs bû, çêbû. Mamoste hebûn. Ev a silav me li ber şêxekî xwend. Yekî ereb bû, li vir da hatiye vir da. After that, Syria was established, it was built. There were teachers. We studied under a sheikh. He was an Arab, he came here.
Komayê dixwendin, gund girt, her yek salê 25 warqan da. We studied in groups, the village gathered, each gave 25 liras a year.
Ev a kîjan salê bû berî şêxa dixwend? Which year was this when you studied with the sheikh?
Di 1950-51'an de me li ber şêxan xwend. Heta 53'yan. 53'yan rabûn bavikê me em şandin Efrînê. Efrîn heta sefê pênca hebû xwendina seretayî. In 1950-51 we studied with the sheikhs. Until '53. In '53, our fathers sent us to Afrin. Afrin had primary education up to the fifth grade.
Li vî gundî tev de poste hebû. Wê postê jî sibeha diçû Heleb, tu diçûyî te ne diçûsa, makîne hebûn, ne tenê nedat in. Nadir. In this whole village, there was a post office. That post went to Aleppo in the morning, if you went, you couldn't find a car, they were rare. Rare.
Edi ji wê da û şûn da jî, em xeyatê xwe xebitîn. Îşte em şixul in, erdê me hebûn, me darê zeytûnê çandin. After that, we worked in our own lives. We worked, we had land, we planted olive trees.
Ji berî we zeytûn hebû, di 1950'an de li vir derê? Did you have olives before, in the 1950s around here?
Kêm bûn, kêm bûn. Eh me yanî wekî bîst darî me hebû, wekî din paşê me çandin. Elhemdulillah, me her yekî çarsed pêncsed dar me çandin zeytûn. They were few, few. We had maybe twenty trees, we planted the rest later. Thank God, each of us planted four or five hundred olive trees.
Û karê çandiniyê bi destan me dikir. Fitilî, yanî sahl li vir da, patos tunebûn. Ji cerê dagerandin. And we did the farming by hand. We spun, I mean, the fields here, there were no threshing machines. We used a "cer" (threshing sled).
Di bin dawêr tînan, digo "şixre", tînan vira bi cer û cerê dikir taw. Ba dikirin bi heywê, paşê zexîrê xwe dihiştin. Û ji dawerî xira, ji xira. We put them under the cattle, they called it "şixre", they brought it here and threshed it. They winnowed it in the wind, then they stored their grain. And from the cattle downwards, from the downwards.
Yanî însanekî salê, yekî dîn û, çiqas dîn a digot em me der didin, çalê xwe dîn a genim welav dikir, tav didan, yanî gî genim tav da, ev gî jî tune bû digot "Welle vî merivî qerşik çe", cih û genim tev hev dikirî. I mean, a person in a year, a crazy one, however crazy he was, he would say we produce it, scatter his wheat in a pit, put it in the sun, I mean, he put all the wheat in the sun, if this wasn't available he would say, "By God, this man's rubbish is good," he mixed barley and wheat.
Û xudre jî bi şiklê giştî tunebû, paşê hîn bûn. Gotin ew anî bîstan jî bê av dibin. Av cihe me tuneye, ajotin derkirin, li dera behcan çandin, behcan jî bûn. And vegetables generally didn't exist, then they learned. They said those melons can grow without water. We didn't have water anywhere, they ploughed and took them out, they planted tomatoes outside, and there were tomatoes too.
Yanî zebeşî bûn. Host: Ew a gî bejî bûn. Man: Bejî, li vir derê me yanî bacan diçandin, şîn dibû nê me wekî ti dixwazî, derdiketin. Û mişmiş çêbûn, yanî dinê de de, em gihîştin jiyanekî îşte te dît kahrabe çêbû, av derket. I mean, watermelons. Host: Those were all dry-farmed. Man: Dry-farmed, here we planted tomatoes, they grew as you wanted, they came out. And apricots grew, I mean, little by little, we reached a life where you see electricity came, water came out.
Kî behsa avê bike ji me re, berî salên penciyan, we avê xwe jê ku derdixist. Tell us about the water, before the fifties, where did you get your water from?
Avê me wê çaxê, xelkê gî sarnîncê xwe hebûn û heta sehînç li çiyê jî hebûn ihtiyat. Our water at that time, all the people had their own cisterns, and even in the mountains there were reserve cisterns.
Û bîrek hebû, bes ew bîra avzê bû, ji erdê da bû. Di nav erdê da me ye, erdê apê min e, li wê ra ye. Bîr, havînê ava xwe zêde dadiqurtand, pezê gund gî li ser bû. And there was a well, but that well was a spring well, it was from the ground. It's in our land, my uncle's land, it's over there. The well, in summer, it swallowed its water a lot, all the village's sheep were on it.
Paşê ji zivistanê radibû, av firt dibû. Then in winter it would rise, the water would overflow.
Ev a bîr a berî ev çend salan e? How many years old is this well?
Kesî nedî ye yanî kê kolaye û çêkiriye. Bes di jêr da, îşekî wisa tertîb girtine giş bi kevirê reş e, hin bi hin hin bi hin heta giş yek. No one has seen who dug and built it. But down below, they organized it in such a way, it's all black stone, step by step until it's all one.
Em li vê dinê dimînin heyret evan a çawa wisa kolaye. Çil metreyî! We look at this and wonder how they dug it like that. Forty meters!
Yanî hin destpêkê hatina gund da kî ye, ew a bîr hebû. Man: Bîr a heye. So when you first came to the village, that well was there. Man: The well is there.
Kes nizane ku kî hatiye. Man: Kes nizanê ji kû hatiye, ewa. No one knows who came. Man: No one knows where it came from, yeah.
Edê îşte kalên me, bavên me, tiştî nedîn, paşê, di pêncî û heftan heştan da wira, av kolan. Our elders, our fathers, didn't see anything, then, around fifty-seven, fifty-eight, they dug for water.
Jêrê gund, bîrê qirtûwazî, wê çaxê gund a wehdê bû. Kolan, heta yanî bapîrê me hebû, apê me hebû lo digot, "Vir av da kin av li vir da ji kû hatiye," digot ava tîn in bera didinê, paşê dikişînin. Below the village, an artesian well, at that time the village was united. They dug, up to I mean our grandfather was there, our uncle was there, he used to say, "Put water here, where did water come from here," he said they bring water, put it in, then pump it.
Çima we îna nakirin av li vê derê erda hey? Why didn't you believe there was water in the ground here?
Temam ew an a îna nekirin kî av li erdê heyî. Nizanîn. Nizanîn, nizanîn, kûk nizanîn. Right, they didn't believe there was water in the ground. They didn't know. They didn't know, they didn't know at all, they didn't know anything.
Yanî kesî, me dît, pênc salan carek Heleb nediye. Me kûk, yanî nedîbûn, tu ke bi me re şehrê Heleb. I mean nobody, we saw, hadn't seen Aleppo once in five years. We hadn't seen anything, let's say the city of Aleppo.
Bi me re bajarê Heleb yekî digot "em du ro der in du ro tên". Û paşê pir gundî, dewerê xwe mesela zêtê xwe bi qatiran dibirin. About the city of Aleppo, someone would say "we go for two days and come for two days". And then many villagers used to take their cattle, for example their oil, with mules.
Tunebû, yanî ji qatiran şêst pêncî dera dar boz bû, makîne çêbûn pir bûn, va rêko çêbû. Kehreb e çêbû. Kehreb e jî çêbû. Dinê tewirî. Îş, şixul jî, yanî kêm bû we hes çêbû. Elhemdulillah. There weren't any, I mean with mules there were fifty or sixty steep places, cars appeared and multiplied, these roads were built. Electricity came. Electricity also came. The world changed. Work, work was also, I mean, little, it became better. Thank God.
Û li ser yanî mesela gund jî elhemdulillah gundekî tifaqa û rinda. Û giş ji mervê hev in, yanî welê na, malbat cî ye, bes gişk xalê hev din in, xwarzî hev din in. Ew a hev din a. Elhemduillah gundê me gundekî rinda xwedê ji gişkan razî be. And concerning the village, thank God, it's a united and good village. And everyone is related, I mean not really, families are separate, but everyone is each other's uncle, each other's nephew. They are related. Thank God our village is a good village, may God be pleased with everyone.
Naka tiştekî dîn am pirs kim. Tu fermo. Now let me ask you something else. Go ahead.
Me behsa malbatê destpêkê ne kir, tu navêt gundiyayî we nagotin jimara. Man: Ew a kî! We didn't talk about the first families, you didn't tell us the names of the villagers. Man: Who!
Malbat, kî hatine e destpêkê? Te got ha deh û pênc berî wern e gund. Li cindin bû. Pûş e xwedê tixun ze won u nisxê kî bi. Families, who came first? You said there were ten or five before coming to the village. In the threshing floor. Then God brought them and who were they.
Wele ji, silav eke te re bi bêm. Miletê me vir e de be Mila. Û milet ke vir e de be Qeraca. Û miletê ji ha bîre de be male Hebîşa. By God, let me tell you this first. Our people here are called Mila. And the people here are Qeraca. And the people from that well are the Hebîşa family.
Û milet ji hane male Kursela. Hev nû teqrîben gibhe re gişni wî kûndi. Çinke ardit gandi, û şata, hev nû jê klakî mobê he tîn e û hevnû kî erdi xwa teqrîben wxtî lef ê kirin e, qasre hevn e. And the people from there are the Kursela family. They are all almost from this village. Because the lands of the village, and the slopes, they also brought from the sides and they also divided their land when they came together, they were like palaces.
Noko e bapîrî bafqî me şûn e teqrîben sed çal erde xwe bî. Het e çi Xirzê e Qaraca we yo la gî xi we ev xi bi. Now, my grandfather's father, they had a place with approximately a hundred pits of land. Until what Xirzê to Qaraca, that was his, this was his.
Çing e mo lindik bi. Poş e jo mo lino per bîn. Because we were few. Then we became many.
Spasiya te dikim, saeti te xweş. Thank you, have a good time.
Heta xweş xwedê ji we razî bî. Hatina wa tiştik e, sar sari me sar çofi me. E wîn... Have a good time, may God be pleased with you. Your coming is something, you are welcome. And you...
Merheba xaltîk. Hello, auntie.
Ehlen wesehlen. Welcome.
Em te nas bikin, navê te? Let's get to know you, what's your name?
Navê min Emîne ye. My name is Emine.
Xaltîka Emîne, ji gundê Qutana ye? Auntie Emine, are you from Qutana village?
Belê. Yes.
Dixwazim ji me re behsa jinên gund bikî. I want you to tell us about the women of the village.
Jinên berê, di zemanê berê de li Qutana... The women of the past, in the old days in Qutana...
Çi kar dikirin? Çi îş didîtin? What work did they do? What jobs did they have?
Jina çi kar dikir? Kar... şte... nan dikirin, dewar didotin... What work did women do? Work... well... they made bread, milked the animals...
Şte... şîv çêdikirin, pez hebûn, zeytûn hebûn... Well... they made dinner, there were sheep, there were olives...
Me çi kar, şte, wilo nedikir... karê zeytûnan. We didn't do much else... we did the work of the olives.
Karê zeytûnan, di nav zeytûnan de we çi kar dikir? Jinan jî dikirin? Olive work, what work did you do among the olives? Did the women do it too?
Jinan jî dikirin. The women did it too.
Belê. Yes.
Em bi şev radibûn... me legenik nan dikir. We would wake up at night... we would make a basin of bread dough.
Şîva xwe çêdikirin û bi sibehê re diçûne nav zeytûnan. We would make our dinner and go to the olive fields in the morning.
Me zeytûn dajoştin. Ev êvarî jî pêş de werin şîvê çêkin... We would pick olives. In the evening we would come early to make dinner...
Paşê werin, şte, qeçikek werin bixwin. Then they'd come, well, they'd come a bit later to eat.
Pezê we jî hebû? Did you have sheep too?
Hebû. We did.
Deh, sê-çar dewarên wan hene hindik, hinek... nedihiştin qet... Ten, three or four cattle, some had a few, some... they didn't leave them empty...
Û pez û tiştek xwedî dikirin. And they raised sheep and things.
Şîvên berê, e we dikirin, çi bûn? The old dinners, the ones you used to make, what were they?
Şîvên berê... Şte... The old dinners... well...
Me sermîsaq dikirin, sarmet dikirin, kofte bûn... We made sermisaq, we made sarmet, there were meatballs...
Şte roj hey, her roj tiştek me dikir. Şîv bûn. Well, there were days, every day we made something. They were dinners.
Pîrên berê dikirin, pîran me şilik dikirin... The old women used to do it, the old women made shilik...
Pîran me... av dikir, yanî we birîndar derman dikirin, yanî dêyikê qolê. The old women... made water, I mean, they treated the wounded, I mean the mother of the arm.
Şilik, te got şilik. Şilik çawa çêdibû? Shilik, you said shilik. How was shilik made?
Şilik hevîr rohn dikin. For shilik, they make a thin dough.
Û li ser sêlê didêlin. Yes.
Û li ser sêlê didêlin. And they spread it on the sac (iron griddle).
Û hildikin, paşê hûr dikin û tal dimis û rûn dikin. And they take it off, then they shred it and pour molasses and oil over it.
Hêvîr dimêjin şilik. They call the dough shilik.
Li Qutana heta naha go çêdikin, lê na? Yes.
Li Qutana heta naha go çêdikin, lê na? In Qutana they still make it now, or no?
Dikin nexêr, î heye dike. They don't do it, some do.
Î heye dike, dike wekî dinî heye nake. Some do, some make it, others don't.
Yanî dikin jinik nexêr... I mean the women do it no...
Xaltîk, jinên berê dixwendin? Auntie, did women study in the past?
Mekteb hebû, diçûn dixwendin destê... Was there a school, did they go and study...
Naxêr, me gunehê me re tinebû. Du roj paşê na... dereng çêbû. No, we didn't have that privilege. Two days later no... it was built late.
Yanî an di dema we de kesî nexwendibû? So in your time nobody studied?
Na, kesî nexwendibû. No, nobody studied.
Wê demê digotin eybe jinikek, qîzek çûya mektebê, eybe bilind nakin. At that time they said it's shameful for a woman, a girl to go to school, they said it's shameful, they don't raise them up.
Çend salî te mêr kir? At what age did you get married?
Tu, ew xwe, î heye zû xwesti bû didan kirin. You, well, some were asked for early and they were given in marriage.
Î heye pir dima. Pîr dibû mezin dibû. Hewayê tu şansa xwe yî... Some stayed a long time. They got old, they grew up. It was all about your luck...
Tu çend salî bûyî te mêr kir? How old were you when you got married?
Ez? Me?
Deh û şeş. Mm.
Deh û şeş. Sixteen.
Wileh min û ew re frensî dibû... Yanî te qeyna wa qeç... master û çiyek îç xwendibûme. By God, me and him were like French... I mean, you'd think... that I had studied for a master's or something.
Qeyna we qeç tiştek bû, şte yane... You'd think it was something, well, I mean...
Wê gavê jin we hîn çi îş didîtin? Xeyrî wê? At that time, what other jobs did women do? Besides that?
Çandinî nediçûn... palehiyê jî? Farming, they didn't go... to the harvest too?
Em diçûn palehiyê jî. We went to the harvest too.
Palehî jî wilo bûn... me re... The harvest was like that too... for us...
Şte, diçûn palehê, biçiniya ew ban ya nav ban yan. Well, they went to the harvest, they harvested the grain or whatever.
Xaltîk ne çetin bû berê? Auntie, wasn't it difficult in the past?
E çawa ne çetin bû... çetin mecbûrî te kê çikî... Of course it was difficult... difficult but you had to, what could you do...
Mêra jin li malê nedihiştin, jin jî diçûn wan. The men wouldn't let the women stay at home, the women also went with them.
Yanî mêra digot ka here pê? So the men would say go ahead?
Jinik bi xwe digotin em karê mêra ra hevkariyê bikin... The women themselves said let's help the men with their work...
Am kê bi hev ra rabin, şte, pale xwe biçinin go gowalê zeytûnan, gowalê pale ne, cêr car e. We will stand up together, well, harvest our crops, whether it's sacks of olives, or sacks of crops, jars...
E bi dawan e girêdan e, em jî batana ne şte... wa ye fikar hûr kirin. It was tied with strings, we also tied them... they chopped up the worries.
Belê. Yes.
Dema dawet dikir we qîzek darxist, we çi dikir jê re? When there was a wedding and you gave a girl away, what did you do for her?
Me hal dikir... dawet... şte... We prepared... the wedding... well...
Bi xwe, bi destê xwe çi çêdikirin jinên gund ji yara? By yourselves, with your own hands, what did the women of the village make for the lover?
Lê? Huh?
Ey ha çêdikirin... Yeah, they made...
Ya çêdikirin, ten ten e çêdikirin, pirtîk girêdidan... They made things, they made lace, they tied blankets...
Şte, me çiqas hirî şûştî. Ji qîzê wilo warê pirtîk girêdidan. Well, how much wool we washed. For the girl, they tied blankets for the camps.
Me dikir yanî mîna gav... We did it, I mean like the time...
Aa mar ser noko deng kin... Ah let's talk about now...
Noko em tiştekî nakin. Noko em rûdinên, şte, ew bûye aven em kê çikin. Now we don't do anything. Now we sit, well, it's become like this, what can we do.
Xwezî me re ser dawetên berê deng ke. I wish you would tell us about the weddings of the past.
Dawetên berê çawa bûn? How were the weddings of the past?
Dawetên berê... Lê ew tinebûn, def hebûn zirne hebûn... The weddings of the past... Well, those things didn't exist, there were tambourines, there were zurnas...
Zirne bûn. Hemşê mektebê em gî diçûne, wê doşek dîtin on e. There were zurnas. We all went to the schoolyard, they laid out mattresses.
Nexwe we daxê kursî tinebûn. Because there were no chairs back then.
Doşek dîtî yane ji şûna kursiyo... They laid out mattresses, I mean instead of chairs...
Lê hesîr radixistin, doşek dîtin on, balgeh sipî, qenevîc dar... They spread mats, laid down mattresses, white pillows, embroidered fabrics...
Şte, gidînex xwandi ye te kê wen e ser rûnin. Well, they read the guestlist, they decide who sits on them.
Bes ê nêzîk jê dihatin dawetê, lê gund gî kom dibû? Only close relatives came to the wedding, or did the whole village gather?
Oh gund gî dihatin. Oh the whole village came.
Êd xerb jî mey tanin da wî. Even strangers were brought there.
Ezem xelat jî ra kirin ê kê warin xwandî yên ta ne. They also brought gifts and invited guests.
Êd wê dawetê wa çi dikir? Yanî wekî dawetên noko e? What did they do at that wedding? Was it like the weddings of today?
Ne, noko ew dexe dewet ew bûn e... ta şîv dikirin... ta qeşqec dikir... filan dikir.. No, now those weddings are... they made dinner... they made kashk... they did this and that...
Û ne noko, qûluy noko ewa tî der a sate... du sê seet dawetê deke û tê. And not now, now they just go out for an hour... they have a wedding for two or three hours and come back.
Hewayê çi, we çend saet dawet dikir? Well what about you, how many hours did you have the wedding?
Ha wê, ew hey e sê çar ro def e dixistin, dawet dikirin. Oh, back then, they played the drum for three or four days, they celebrated.
Sê çar ro dawet e? The wedding was three or four days?
Erê. Yes.
Lê, em diçûn karê xwe va ten a, devê lê dixist dawet diki... We would go about our work and come back, the drum would play and they'd celebrate...
Bûk zava tamnê li wir rûniştibûn yan... Were the bride and groom sitting there or...
Arecê. Yes indeed.
Bûk zavek li xortan, henek dikir wan nê ro yê kê xena kir wane, şte xene kir... The bride and groom joked with the young men, they joked, they applied henna...
Ka ji me re ser hene bêje. Tell us about the henna.
Me le diçûn e mala xwedanê hene kiran, û den go di gund bûn. We would go to the host's house to apply henna, and the voices were in the village.
Diçûn e, mala xwidanê bûkê... Lîzê van. They went to the bride's host's house... Liz was their name.
Ê bûkê... The bride's...
Ê bûkê, diçûn, diçûn danîn mal e kê dîtin on... The bride's, they went, they set it up in the house they saw...
Û ewaran jî diçûn gazî jinên gund dikirin, gund gişt... And in the evenings they went and invited the women of the village, the whole village...
Werin em kê bûkê hene bikin. Ewa tên a... Come let's apply henna to the bride. They would come...
Î hê pênc ereq dikirî... î hê dehe dikirê, î hê dudu dikirî... go ro ya nay per e xwa. Some would give five liras... some would give ten, some would give two... it was about their own money.
Bes bûk hene dikirin, zava hene nedikirin? Only the bride got henna, the groom didn't get henna?
Na... No...
E noko zava jî hene dikin. Well now they apply henna to the groom too.
Noko zava jî hene dikin... na wî daxê bûk hene dikirin. Now they apply henna to the groom too... no, back then they only applied it to the bride.
Çend li me... mala me hene kir li fira, çend li gund, em sir se gund bûn male. How many in our... our house applied henna here, how many in the village, we were at the head of the village.
Li vî alî bû... vî dexe... po hey em hatin vira di se ci. It was on this side... this side... well, we came here later on.
Le wira nin hene dikirin hewşa... şte. There they applied henna in the courtyard... well.
Dawetên berê rind bûn lê noko te dibê? The weddings of the past were nice, but now, what do you think?
Lê dawetên berê ta ortê je nê aciz e. But the weddings of the past, until the middle, nobody was annoyed.
Ort ê avê germ bûn, hewşa we mede çi, hewşa mektebê e bar we şte... The atmosphere was warm, the courtyard, whatever, the schoolyard was open, well...
Î hebu çadir vadigirte bî... î hey ji on er ber û abî... şte tu şore... There were tents that were pitched... some were just out in the open... well, you talk...
Çadir çawa va digirte bî? How were the tents pitched?
Av e... e wî tiştî sersî yane... It's water... those things covering it...
Û netî... ma te Qutana... And the fruits... from Qutana...
I da Qutana her kes gor e xwe çêdike we, masî kemencî ye... dimsî sim sum toye... Oh in Qutana everyone makes their own, it's fish, it's kemenci... molasses, sesame, everything...
Penîr e şte, tiştê lîçer in e... le çer mişmiş on a yew.. It's cheese, it's things from the dairy... the dairy of apricots...
Korî wa berê qulay bû lê nok o... gure te dibîne li gund. Your work in the past was easy, but now... as you see in the village.
Ê noko korî nê, noko korê na hayê najî minê. Well now the work is no, now there is no work, it doesn't suit me.
Yane wekî berê we nare palî û dera... I mean, like in the past, you don't go to the harvest and out there...
Na na are... îş ne min wen a. No no... there are no jobs for us.
Du deh a sal êb in in bar ê we hare bê îrfîn ê da... For two decades, your loads go without knowledge...
Av zeytûnê xwe dem a nor û am na çiq we te wa dim a nor om nan e ko ew e hila de tew e de we.. This olive oil of ours, time passes and we don't know how much we have left, we just look at the tricks they play on us.
Saeta te xweş xaltîk. Bless your hours, auntie.
Saeta te jî xweş. Bless your hours too.
Te çawa sermîsaq çêdikir, sermîsaq qot ê.. How did you make sermisaq, the sermisaq was crushed..
Lê sermîsaq me pedixwîn dikir in... We used to boil the sermisaq...
Merheba xalê min. Hello, my uncle.
Merheba u sed car. Hello and a hundred times.
Em te nas bikin, navê te? Let's get to know you, what's your name?
Mihemedê Ûsê Mîran. Laqabê min Sêwî ye. Mihemed Use Miran. My nickname is Sewi (orphan).
Ji gundê Qutana ye. From Qutana village.
Ji gundê Qutana me... Muqîm im ê. I am from Qutana village... I am a resident.
Te got Sêwî ye, çima j'te re dibêjin Sêwî ye leqeb? You said Sewi, why do they call you Sewi as a nickname?
Wile ynê heqîqet em sêwî bûn... Sêwî mezin bûn e.. By God, truly we were orphans... We grew up as orphans...
Dixwazim ji me re behsa halê çandiniyê, çandina gund bikî. I want you to tell us about the state of agriculture, the farming of the village.
Gundê Qutana... çi çandin heye? Dar çin e, bi çin e avdar e... Kerem bike. Qutana village... what crops are there? What trees are there, what is irrigated... Go ahead.
Gundê Qutana, bîdayetê da, çandina me... Genim, ce... nîsk, nok, sela, colban... Qutana village, in the beginning, our farming... Wheat, barley... lentils, chickpeas, vetch, sweet peas...
Eva vî av... Bejî. This water... Dry-farming.
Bejî ye. It is dry-farming.
Di dû re me nav dar in e... bi rez. Rezên tiriyan... Afterwards we have trees... vineyards. Vineyards of grapes...
Rezê... bi geliyê çayê, geliyek heye vêre dibêjin geliyê çayê... The vineyard... in the tea valley, there is a valley they call the tea valley...
Rezê me ra têde bûn, û wekî te gotî, her malekê perçek di xwe têde bûn. Our vineyards were in there, and as you said, every family had a piece of their own in it.
Lê reza nav jî di nav firotin, û hilweşiyan wextê zeytûna hat, bi haş a bi keran û dewarê nav zeytûnan ji di gerin. But the vineyards inside were also sold, and they were destroyed when the olive season came, with plows and donkeys and cattle they also wander among the olives.
Kîjan cure tirî ji we re ha wile da? Which type of grapes gave you that much?
Cureyên tirî... me digot şamî... Tirî şîn... Types of grapes... we used to call them Shami... Blue grapes...
Ew ew tişt bûn... They were those things...
Di dî wê ra... After that...
Di dû re dest pê bû, xelkê zeytûn çandin. Afterwards it began, the people planted olives.
Hm. Hm.
Wê demê, tu dikarî bêjî ev di kîjan zemanî de bûn? Humsî ye, nizanim çi ye, evên din kîjan in? Then, could you tell us what time this was from? This Humsî one, or I don't know what, which ones are the others?
Humsî ha ye, paşê wê askê wê jî ha we dît. This is the Humsî one, and then you saw its branch over there.
Di dû re, rez û zeytûn di nav hev de çandin. Afterwards, they planted vineyards and olives together.
Humsî jî çandin, ya din jî çandin, Şamî jî çandin... They planted Humsî, they planted the other one, they planted Şamî...
Yanî gelek cureyan çandin. Meaning, they planted many types.
Kîjan ji wan rind e? Which one of them is good?
Bi xwedê, Humsî rind e. Şamî rind e. By God, Humsî is good. Şamî is good.
Ev ha baş e, belê. That one is good, yes.
Bes ya herî pêşî a min gotî Şêxî, ew ji gişkan xweştir e. But the very first one I mentioned, the Şêxî, that is the tastiest of all.
Têra xwe xweş e, nerm e û zer e, ew baş e. It is quite tasty, soft and yellow, that is good.
Hema berî wan, we çi diçand? But before those, what did you plant?
Berî wan, bav û kalên me çandibûn, em gehiştinê, û me yanî ew ji binî de rakirin. Before those, our forefathers had planted them, we came upon it, and we uprooted them completely.
Û em gihîştinê. Di dû re jî, dest pê kirin, rez û zeytûn di nav hev re çandin. And we came upon it. Afterwards, they started planting vineyards and olives together.
Wextê ku simt e rez tinebûn. Û di dû re rez û zeytûn di nav hev re çandin. When it was all rock, there were no vineyards. Afterwards, they planted vineyards and olives together.
Xeynî wê, dar û tiştên cemaeta we ha ne... hûn tiştên din naçînin? Besides that, trees and such in your community... do you not plant other things?
Dar... hejîr hene, simaq heye. Trees... there are figs, there is sumac.
Û gelek cûreyên din jî xelkê ji xwe re mişmiş diçandin, sêv diçandin. And many other kinds, people planted apricots for themselves, they planted apples.
Û di nav re, bîstanî bacan diçandin. Di nav erdê sûk... erdê ketî û rind. And in between, they planted eggplants for summer crops. In the red earth... the soft and good earth.
Bîstan jî hebûn. Kundir bûn, encûr bûn, xitî bûn, bacanê sor bûn, ev jî diçandin. There were summer crops too. Zucchini, Armenian cucumbers, melons, tomatoes, they planted these too.
Ew tebîeta gundê Kûtan e... ev e. Naha jî bes zeytûn maye. Tu tiştî din nemaye. That is the nature of Kûtan village... that's it. Now, only olives remain. Nothing else is left.
Çima? Why?
Bes zeytûn... Only olives...
Lê naha çima? Çima neman yanî? But why now? Why are they gone?
Wextê ku zeytûn mezin bûn, hukim li rezan kir, rez xera dibin. When the olive trees grew, they took over the vineyards, the vineyards got ruined.
Rêz hildikin û zeytûn tenê dimînin. Û di nav de hejîr mane. They uproot the vineyards and only the olives remain. And there are figs left among them.
Di taqê min re simaq maye. Haliyen wexta niha de ev maye. Some sumac is left on my plot. Currently, this is what is left now.
Bes wekî ku dibêjin darên wek sêv û mişmiş û xox û tûyên reş û spî û darên din... evnaha qet nemane. But as they say, trees like apples, apricots, peaches, black and white mulberries and other trees... these are completely gone now.
Naha zeytûn bi tenê mane. Now only olives remain.
Selam xalo, silav ji te re. Hello uncle, peace to you.
Aleykum selam. Peace be upon you too.
Xalo, te dikarîbû ji me re hinekî qala ava gund jî bikira? Av çawa ye li gund, çawa bû? Uncle, could you also tell us a little about the village water? How is the water in the village, how was it?
Av, di tarîxa kevin de, em dibêjin di erdê de av tinebû, li Kûtanan. Water, in ancient history, we say there was no groundwater, in Kûtan.
Her malekî serincikek ji xwe re kola bû, ava serincê xwe vedixwarin. Every house had dug a cistern for themselves, they would drink from their cisterns.
Wexta ku kêm dibû, ava serincan kêm dibû... Qestelê Mixte jî ji me sê-çar kîlometre ne. When it got low, the water in the cisterns got low... Qestelê Mixte is also three or four kilometers away from us.
Her kesek bi heywanên xwe, bi kerên xwe, qantirên xwe, çi tiştên wî hebûn, diçûn ji Qestelê av danîn. Wexta ku av kêm dibû. Everyone with their animals, with their donkeys, their mules, whatever they had, would go to fetch water from the Qestel. When the water got low.
Sal hebû, weke naha salek kêm e... av kêm dibû, weha di nav re kêm dibû ser diçûn Qestelê danîn. There were years, like now, if it was a dry year... the water would be low, it would be low inside so they would go to the spring to get water.
Gundê berê rind dît, lê niha ko rind e? Ji te re wek te dîtîye. The village of the past seemed nice, but is it nice now? From what you've seen.
Bixwedê ez, ez wisa dibêjim... By God, I, I say this...
Ez tim dibêjim berê tişt teufîr bû, erzan bû... I always say, in the past things were abundant, it was cheap...
Kes ne muhtacê kesî bû, û şoreşkî yekî mezinan dikir da meşîn. No one was in need of anyone else, and one of the elders would lead a movement.
Niha cemaetek çêbe... yê ku dengê wî zêde derdikeve, gotina wî diçe. Now, if a gathering takes place... the one with the loudest voice gets their word across.
Yanî rastî... tiştê ku ez dibêjim ev e... Niha weke ku ew xebîrê gotiye kul mîn îdo îlo, The truth is... what I'm saying is this... Now, as that expert said, everyone is for themselves,
Êdî kes bi ya kesî nake, gotin nabe yek û li hevdû xwedî derneketin... No one listens to anyone else anymore, there is no unity in words, and they did not support each other...
Em wê nabînin, em wisa kêm dibînin. We don't see that, we see very little of it.
Û şolên van tiştan jî her em jê birçî bin... em dibêjin halê niha bi vî awayî rindtir e. And as for the matters of these things, whenever we are hungry for it... we say the current state is better this way.
Bi vî awayî rabûn û rûniştin rindtir e, xweştir e. Living and socializing like this is better, it's nicer.
Lê te digot berê rind bû, ji niha pêştir bû. But you said the past was nicer, it was better than now.
Berê ji niha pêştir e... The past is better than now...
Gund naha çi bi te dike, tu çawa behsa vê cemaetê din yê we, tu wana dikî? What does the village mean to you now, how do you talk about its society, its things?
Te digot em mil hev re kom dibin, em rûdiniştin. Me deng dikir. Niha di ku derê hûn kom dibin, wê li kû rûdinên? You were saying we used to gather together, we used to sit. We used to talk. Now, where do you gather, where do you sit?
Bixwedê ez tera bibêjim... Her haleteke malek diçe cihê rûniştinê ye. By God, let me tell you... In every situation, a family goes to a place to sit.
Her haleteke, her miletîkî, ê ku naxwaze neçe cemaeta wî, sebra wî nayê. In every situation, any community, the one who doesn't want to go to their gathering, lacks the patience for it.
Wana sehak ku em tiştekî wisa wî gundî tuneye û wana wekî yekî kom bibin. For them, it seems that there is no such thing in the village, and they don't gather as one.
Sê heb... gundê me edetî, di gundê Kûtanan de. Me digot bêder e. Çûna wî derî karkirin e. Three... our village traditionally, in the village of Kûtan. We used to say, it's a threshing floor. Going there means working.
Çûna wan cihan, tiştek tunebû, bêder bû. Bi şev du bêderan re, jin çêbûn... Going to those places, there was nothing, it was a threshing floor. At night, women would go to two of the threshing floors...
Me digot qehwe, cihê rûniştinê ye. Yekî xwest kamîla xwe bîne, yekî qehweyek xwe, yekî çayek xwe, ew cî çêbû. We called it a coffeehouse, a place to sit. One wanted to bring their equipment, one their coffee, one their tea, that place was set up.
Lê niha, rûniştina li ser rê û wan tiştan tineye. But now, there's no sitting on the roads or things like that.
Ew çîrokên ku... ji wan re çi dihat gotin? Wisa li ber rê rûdiniştin. Çîrok jî hebûn... Those stories that... what were they called? Sitting by the roadside like that. There were stories too...
Çîrok hebûn... Me digot Şêxê Şeş e, me digot Şêxê Şeş e... di çîrokên navdar de. There were stories... We used to say, "the sheikh of six", we used to say, "the sheikh of six"... in the famous stories.
Saet xweş. Have a good time.
Te jî xweş. You too.
Em te nas bikin? Can we get to know you?
Merheba, ehlen we sehlen. Şêx Îbrahîm, muxtarê Kûtanan im. Hello, welcome. I am Şêx Îbrahîm, the mukhtar of Kûtan.
Em dixwazin tu ji me re behsa xwendin û xwendavanên gund bikî. We would like you to tell us about the education and students in the village.
Çawa bû xwendin li Kûtanan, çawa ye xwendina li gund, destpêkê kîna... How was the education in Kûtan, how is education in the village, in the beginning who...
Haliyen li Kûtanan, mekteb şixul e, rind e. Îbtîdaî heye, îdadî heye, senewî heye. Currently in Kûtan, the school is functioning, it is good. There is primary, there is middle, there is high school.
Destpêka mektebê çi wextê ava bû? When was the school first established?
Ji berê de... From the past...
Yanî ha çi wextî çêbû li Kûtanan? I mean, when was it built in Kûtan?
Kûtanan... di sala 1970'an de heye. Berî sala 70'yan de heye. In Kûtan... it existed in the year 1970. It existed before the year '70.
Û ji me xwendavan kevin, pirr hene. And we have many old students.
Ji Ebdulmenan Îbrahîm, apê min bû... Wî mekteba gund ava kir. Such as Ebdulmenan Îbrahîm, he was my uncle... He built the village school.
Û li nahiyeya Cindirêsê, gilî dikir... And in the district of Jinderes, he used to file complaints...
Xwedê rehma xwe lê bike û, bi xwesteka wî, May God have mercy on him, and by his request,
Yanî tişt ji nahiyeya Bilbilê kêm dipirsî, bes Mamoste Ebdulmenan gazinc dikir... Xwedê rehma xwe lê bike. Meaning, he asked little from the district of Bilbil, but Teacher Ebdulmenan would complain... May God have mercy on him.
Û rewşenbîr pirr in di Kûtanan de. And there are many intellectuals in Kûtan.
Yanî, ji me di sala 1950'an de, ez bi xwe muwezef bûm li Helebê. That is, from us, in the year 1950, I myself was an employee in Aleppo.
Yanî, em ji îdê de hatin, gund teqrîben boşe bû. Em ji îdê hatin gund... Meaning, we came since the Eid, the village was almost empty. We came from the Eid to the village...
Ji me Kûtanan, me hesab kir ku sê sed, sê sed muwezefên me, em li Helebê dewam dikin. From us in Kûtan, we calculated that three hundred, three hundred of our employees, we continue working in Aleppo.
Yanî çi mikafe'at, cemarek, maliye, kehrebe... terbiyê. Muwezef pirr in. Xwendavan pirr in. Meaning in rewards, customs, finance, electricity... education. There are many employees. There are many students.
Û haliyen naha heta senewiyê ji me heye li Kûtanan. And currently now, we have up to high school in Kûtan.
Destpêkê wexta ev muwezefên te çêdikirin... wan li kîderê dixwendin? Û paşê çûn derketin? In the beginning, when these employees you mentioned were formed... where had they studied? And then they went out?
Piraniya wan... giş, safî yekê ta îdadiyê li gund hebû. Bes, senewî teqeyyid hasren biçe Helebê, ta... Most of them... all, from the first grade up to middle school, it was in the village. But, high school graduation strictly meant going to Aleppo, up to...
Û wezayif jî tune bûn. Hasren teqeyyid li Heleb, ta'yînat... And there were no jobs either. Strictly graduation in Aleppo, appointments...
Te got mekteb 1970'yê çêbû. Berî wê de wezîyeta xwendinê çawa bû? You said the school was built in 1970. What was the state of education before that?
Wella berî wê de, mefkûreta me... du gotin li ber xoceyan dixwendin. Xoce hebûn. Xoceyên gundî hebûn. Well, before that, our mentality... used to say they studied under religious teachers. There were religious teachers. There were village religious teachers.
Yanî, eh... li ber xoceyan dixwendin. Mekteb tune bûn. Meaning, uh... they studied under religious teachers. There were no schools.
Mekteb tune bûn. There were no schools.
Tune bûn... There weren't...
Û dernediketin... yanî derdiketin mektebên li bajêr dixwendin, an çi dikir? And did they not go out... meaning, did they go to schools in the city to study, or what did they do?
Çima... wek a me li Efrînê dixwend... me li Efrînê dixwend... Why... like us, we studied in Afrin... We studied in Afrin...
Û yekî din digot Mehemedê Menî Se'îd, ew jî bekaloriya, wê zemanî, birin. And another called Mehemedê Menî Se'îd, they also took their baccalaureate, in those days.
Û pir çûn Cezayîrê jî. Cezayîr tedrîs kirin û... Yanî evna li Efrînê dixwend. And many went to Algeria too. They taught in Algeria and... Meaning, they studied in Afrin.
Yanî evên naha wek te got yek jê li Efrînê dixwend, paşê hat mekteba gund ava kir. So these ones now, as you mentioned one of them studied in Afrin, then came and built the village school.
Aywe. Erê. Yeah. Yes.
Tê bîra te kesên destpêkê yên ku di hezar û nehsed û heftê de, kî bû kadroya... Do you remember the initial people from the year nineteen seventy, who was the staff...
Tedrîsê ango mamoste, kî bûn mamosteyên destpêkê mektebê de? Of teaching, meaning teachers, who were the first teachers in the school?
Wella ê yekê, yek Ebdulmenan Îbrahîm. Mamoste Mistefa Hesen hebû. Û Ebdurehman Îbo hebû. Well, the first one, one Ebdulmenan Îbrahîm. There was Teacher Mistefa Hesen. And there was Ebdurehman Îbo.
Evna giş muteqa'id in û ji wan hin rehma Xwedê li wan be. Yanî pir bûn. Kadir pir bû. All of these are retired and may God have mercy on some of them. Meaning, there were many. There was a lot of staff.
Mamoste kî heye... Wella, Cuma Îbrahîm hebû. Which teacher is there... Well, there was Cuma Îbrahîm.
Evna giş ji Kûtanan in, ev niha... Mehmûd... Mehmûdê Horo hebû. All of these are from Kûtan, these now... Mehmûd... there was Mehmûdê Horo.
Mamoste kî din hebû? Şewqî. Me jê re digot mamoste Şewqî. Yanî piranî mamoste giş ji gund bûn. Who else was a teacher? Şewqî. We used to call him Teacher Şewqî. Meaning, mostly all the teachers were from the village.
Nîsbetê museqefan niha li Kûtanan, kem ma'rûf e museqefîn... The ratio of intellectuals now in Kûtan, it's very known how many intellectuals there are...
Yanî haliyen, niha yê hisabê ku çekê me dîtî, vana derketine çûne Ewrûpa û çûne Tirkiyê û çûne Helebê û li gund. I mean currently, now based on what we've seen, these have left and went to Europe and went to Turkey and went to Aleppo and in the village.
Yumkin, yek di navbera dused şebabê camî'yîn e haliyen... Possibly, around two hundred of those youth who are university graduates currently...
Di navbera sayadla, dekatra, muhendsîn, dused heye. Ev bes haliyen van fetran derketine. Between pharmacists, doctors, engineers, there are two hundred. That's just currently, in these periods they have emerged.
Û evana naha li vir in le na? And are they here now, or not?
Na. Li Helebê ne, li Ewrûpa ne, Tirkiyê ne. Û hinek haliyen li Efrînê ne. No. They are in Aleppo, they are in Europe, they are in Turkey. And some too currently, are in Afrin.
Bes haliyen Efrîn çawa ne... Ema li vî gundî, milet hinek fitiyaye. But currently, how are they in Afrin... However in this village, the people have scattered a bit.
Em... mextarê gundê Kûtanan in. Cema dused û bîst û pênc malbat, eylat, di taxa Eşrefiyê de rûdiniştin. We... are the mukhtars of Kûtan village. Around two hundred and twenty-five families, households, lived in the Ashrafieh neighborhood.
Piştî derketina rejmê... hemî fitilîn gundên xwe. After the departure of the regime... they all returned to their villages.
Cem me Ereb neman e, du mal tenê mane. We have no Arabs left, only two houses are left.
Me jî haliyan... nêzîka gundê me ye. There's also some of them that are empty... near our village.
Cama pêncî malî me boş in, kes tê de nîne. We have about fifty empty houses, no one lives in them.
Belê. Yes.
Xwediyê wan, Xwedan jî li Tirkiye ne, li Helebê ne, li Ewropa ne. Their owners, their owners are either in Turkey, Aleppo, or Europe.
Pere, yanî, mesela, mekteb keve, kî kadr û mamoste.. yanî kadr camê me xurt e, nexes me nekirine. The money, I mean, for example, the school has falling behind, which cadre and teacher... I mean our cadre is strong, they haven't done us bad.
Te got ji îbtîdaî heta senewî camê heye? Did you say it covers from primary to high school?
Camê heye, heta senewî, camê heye. Bîst gund dor me, dora Qutana tenê Qutana dixwînin, şebab bi bakelorya. Yes, it does, it reaches up to high school. There are 20 villages around us, around Qutana, but only Qutana studies here, the young people taking the baccalaureate.
Ji ber çi li gundê xwe naxwînin, da tên Qutanê? Why don't they study in their own village, instead of coming to Qutana?
Welleh naxwînin, bi hikmê ku nisbe tullabên wan hindik in. To be honest, they don't study there because the number of students is very low.
Wekî ku merhele li vir derê, anku em bêjin merheleyên senewî jî li vir derê hene, lê gundên derûdorî xwe hemîya da tenê an seretayî ye So here there are high school stages, but in the surrounding villages it's only primary school?
Na camê ye seretayî. No, it's only primary school.
Anku a'dadî ye, ewa li vir derê senewî ye Meaning it's middle school, but here you have high school.
Senewî li Qutana ye. High school is only in Qutana.
Destpêkê da senewî heye an fikr? From the beginning, was there high school or was it just an idea?
Na, divê berê li Bilbilê hebûye, û li Meydankê hebû. No, earlier there used to be one in Bilbilê and Meydankê.
Bes niha, hingî, heşt sal e, em vegerîne, li Qutana tenê heye, Qutana jî mesela xêr tenê ye.. bes li Qutana heye, gundê me yê derdorê em bêjin dê bibin, dudu telbe ne. But now, for 8 years, since we returned, it's only in Qutana, and even in Qutana it's barely sufficient. The surrounding villages have very few students, maybe one or two.
Qizilbaş dudu telbe ne, mesela Xelîlako pênc in, heşren diçin yanî.. Qizilbaş has two students, Xelîlako has five, they go in groups...
Qutana yanî.. Qutana, so...
Qutana, yanî gundekî... Qutana is like a village...
E vana zehmetî an zextê li ser mektebê çênakin ku eger... It has become a center.
E vana zehmetî an zextê li ser mektebê çênakin ku eger... It is a center for all the villages.
E vana zehmetî an zextê li ser mektebê çênakin ku eger... Does this create difficulties or put pressure on the school if...
Na tenê, bi xwe nisbe hindik e. No, because the percentage is very small.
Nisbe hindik e The percentage is low.
Bi xwe nisbe hindik e, yanî eger tu bihejmêrî, ev gundê me hemî ew der.. sî, sî û pênc telebe diçin. Yes, the percentage is small. If you count them, all the students from our village who go there are around 30 to 35.
Lê derfet û îmkâniyeta, mesela pirtûkan da... ewiya da perwerde.. But regarding opportunities and resources, like for books... how is education managed?
Welleh wekî terbiye fe'al e yanî em wek... Actually, education is active here, just as we see in...
Efrînê ra.. In Afrin...
...terbiye camê, ji Qurtqulaqê mamoste Arif e, saxte wan jî xwaş... yanî çi genga mektebê gund bibê, nîzama xwe pêncî û.. ji aliyê kitêban de, ji aliyê kadrê tedrîs de.. ji aliyê mazotê de, evana gişt... mekteb umûr mumtaz elhemdullah. ...the educational cadre, from Qurtqulaq is teacher Arif, they are healthy and well... I mean whatever difficulties a village school has, the system operates with its own setup... In terms of books, teaching cadre, diesel, and all that... the school's affairs are excellent, thank God.
Heta tedrîs da mumtaz. Even in teaching, it's excellent.
Spasiya te dikim. I thank you.
Ehlen we sehlen.. saxta we jî xwaş û em qeneta we jî wekî dibê... spasiya wê dikim, Xwedê ji we razî be û saxte we xwaş be. You're welcome. May you be well too. And we appreciate your channel's efforts... I thank you, may God be pleased with you, and may you be healthy.
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Merheba. Hello.
Ehlen we sehlen. Welcome.
Em te nas bikin mamoste? Can you introduce yourself, teacher?
Ez ehmed, mibarekî aslan şêr. I am Ehmed, Mibarekî Aslan Şêr.
Belê... Dixwazim em bi hev re li ser gund behsa gund bikin. Yes... I want us to talk about the village together.
Belê... Yes...
Hejmara malan, çiqa kes li vir derê dijîn, rewşa... The number of houses, how many people live here, the situation...
Bi rastî ev gundê me, teqîban gelekî, du sed û pêncî mal bû. Hêjmara xwe yê berê, sê hezar, sê hezar pênc sedî... şêniyên wî gundî ne. To be honest, our village was quite large, about 250 houses. Its previous population was 3,000, 3,500 people.
Û cema'etê gund... beledîyatê hene. And the people of the village... there are municipalities.
Mektebek heye, zîra'etê heye, mustesuf hebû... na na, evana tesîs... beledîyat û zîra'et evana çênebûne. There is a school, agriculture, there used to be a clinic... no, no, these facilities... municipality and agriculture, they weren't established.
Çênebûne tef'îl nebûne Not established, meaning not activated.
Ji çi wextê da çênekirine ev beledîyat? Not activated.
Ji çi wextê da çênekirine ev beledîyat? Since when haven't these municipalities been established?
Ew berî tarîxekê ev nizanin, me ez ji te re bêjim... They didn't know about this before a certain date, I can tell you...
Lê tu tişt kar nedihatiye kirin But no work was being done.
Na kar dikirin, berî herbê.. kar dikirin. No, they were working, before the war... they were working.
Niqta tibî ya camê mistewsif de ti tişt li vir derê...? Was there any medical point or clinic here...?
Bi wîxta ekseriya me derman nizanîbû, divê berî li Bilbilê hebû, me berê xwe didan Bilbilê. Back then, most of us didn't know about medicine. Previously, there was one in Bilbilê, so we would head to Bilbilê.
Ji bo çi heta niha te çênekiriye? Wek ez zanim jî muqesefeta we pir in, jêkan in..? Why haven't you built one until now? As I know, you have a lot of needs, right?
Welleh te zane rewşa harbê ye û filan.. de wateyê... yanî bi vî rengî em nikarin. Li ber vê yekê ev der hebe tibiyê nizanin, nizanin. Honestly, you know the situation with the war and so on... meaning... in this way, we can't. Because of this, medical care here is unknown to them, they don't know it.
Li vir derê te behsa dabeşkirinê kir... de bêjin sê rê ku diçin.. diçine rê kîjan, yanî li gundê da dabeş dike. You mentioned division here... let's say the three roads that go out... which roads do they take, meaning how they divide the village.
Rêyeke cem me heye.. vegeriye ber bi Bilbilê di Meydanê ra dertê, dîsa derdikevin ser hev. There is one road near us... it goes toward Bilbilê, passes through Meydanê, and then they join together again.
Û ewa din? And the other one?
Û rêyek jî vegeriye derdikeve Reco, dertê piştî... Qotan, dîsa Reco dertê.. û ew rêyek e jî em berê xwe didine Meydankê derdikeve... And another road heads out towards Reco, comes out behind... Qotan, and goes out to Reco again... and there is one road where we head towards Meydankê to go out...
Ev xetê ji gund derdikevin heya mektebê... û te qala ewa kir. These routes exit the village towards the school... and you talked about those.
Çêbûye li xetê Qutana. Yes, it's on the Qutana route.
Em camê wasilat çawan e? How is the transportation?
Bixta miwacilat na rûdinine... yanî... salone da... Regarding transportation, they don't just sit... I mean... in vans...
Yanî salone na ev meqetê salone I mean, not vans, but these minivan seats.
Na, salone heta... salone wextê şalînan.. No, there are vans... vans used during harvest time...
Salone gundan Village vans.
Na weleh salonên gundan jî heye... wextê bulbilê de vegeriya wextê şalînan, gundê me ji ber Qutanê Xelîlaka jî wextê diçûn şalînê.. yanî miwacilat.. Yes, honestly there are also village vans... back in Bilbilê during harvest time, our village and people from Qutanê and Xelîlaka would go to harvest... so there is transportation...
Û wexta ku mektebê we heta navenda lîseyê de heye... telebe gişt tên vir na, hûn we dertêxin heta.. eger tu camê bibêje bixwînin, çawa dertên ji bo te? And since your school goes up to high school... all the students come here, right? You bring them out... if you tell them to study, how do they get to you?
Zehmetî ne ji bo me nîne. It’s not difficult for us.
Zehmetî tune yê wêna? There's no difficulty with that?
Zehmetiyê wê nîne ku tu xwedî moqîne bidî girtin. Telebe tenê.. The difficulty isn't in renting a car. The students just...
Na tîne... mafê xwe hêsan e ser hesabê xwe digrin... There are three car owners who have permits.
Na tîne... mafê xwe hêsan e ser hesabê xwe digrin... No, they bring... it's easy, they arrange it at their own expense...
Yek tenê.. te bîna fehsan dikin, wekî yek dizane yan fehsek heye.. hesaba xwe digirin. Just one thing... they get examined, like if someone knows or there's a test... they manage it on their own.
Dixwazim em bi hev ra behsa ciwanên ku we wexta ku me hene.. çi karî dikin? I want us to talk together about the youth you have here... what kind of work do they do?
Bi rastî ev zewqê wan ne gelek e... pirsgirêka ew yê din de tê gotin... Ûyek ku tu li vir derê karên dî... To be honest, their motivation isn't very high... the issue lies in what is being talked about with others... Here you can find other jobs...
Tûyeke ku tişt nîne, dukan hene, zimanê vana nîne, eger we tu tişt hebûya li vira wisa ew kar dikin. There's really nothing much, there are some shops, but there's no fluency in other languages. If there were anything else here, they would work.
Wextê we got tu li derveyî xebatê... When you said outside of work...
Li wextê we yê vala In their free time.
Berê ku we melheb ji wir çekiribû, me sibehan, ew wextê em çûn derveyî wan derbas dibûn. ... outside their free time.
Berê ku we melheb ji wir çekiribû, me sibehan, ew wextê em çûn derveyî wan derbas dibûn. Before you built the playground there, in the mornings, when we went out, they used to hang around.
Şebab wextê çibikin What did the youth do then?
Ewan wextan, wexta we yê vala we derbas dibûn aviyê.. Back then, they used to spend their free time swimming...
Ê aviyê we bi çi kar anîn? Where did you swim?
Bixwe gundê we da xelk dikin em bi zeman.. dikin eger ava kîrkiro we ava yê wan... People in our village used to swim in the past... if they had the Kirkira waters or their water...
Lê em difikire li ser de meseleyên Kawa yê we... an kawayê ku teqabîle, de bêje mesele gundiya. But thinking about the matter of Kawa... or the Kawa that you encounter, let's say, with the villagers.
De bêje defterek e wisa, de mînak em eger we bibêjin ew deftera kurmanciya nîv nivîsandin me dît wextê nivîsandina Kawa, yanî ew de dît... It’s like a notebook, for example, if we say that notebook of half-written Kurmanji we saw during the writing of Kawa, I mean, we saw that...
Û niha wextan ev tişt hebû? And back then, did this thing exist?
Li vir tişt her heye. Wextan her hene de em diçin Kawa em ê dikin. Yes, everything is here. Back then, they were there, we would go to Kawa and do it.
Û mele'ba we wek fariqê yan na? And is your playground like a team or no?
Nîne wele. Tîmek gundî, dînên me gundiyan wekî li derve gund tiştek derbas kiriye... we wekî tiştên... No, not really. It’s a village team. The young people of our village just formed something out of the village... it’s like...
Da hûn ji te digirin? So, do they learn from you?
Hemî me dît e. Çêkirina tiştên vî, sala êkê çêkir. We saw it all. The building of this place, it was built in the first year.
Te jêra xwe jî wek we derdî. You brought out your own nature as well.
Mesbax de... ew nîv me wextên... şebab we dît... ew wextan derketin eger tişt, wekî ewan... pênc se'etan li ser kar. The swimming pool... for a while we... the youth you see... they used to go out there when there were things to do, like them... five hours working.
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Belê, temaşevanên me yên hêja.. em bi hunermendekî re ne... hunermendekî bi hêvî, dengbêjekî di xweş e bi navê Aslan Şêr. Yes, our dear viewers... we are with an artist... a promising artist, a singer with a beautiful voice named Aslan Şêr.
Ka em ê nasbikin, û we li din kin. Let's get to know him, and have you hear him.
Merheba mamoste. Hello, teacher.
Merheba.. Ehlen. Pêşekê navê min Aslan Şêr, li gundê Qutana me.. serçavê me... ji qanala we jî ya we li TV ye.. em pirsên gundê we qutana ne. Hello.. Welcome. First, my name is Aslan Şêr, from our village of Qutana... welcome to our village... and to your TV channel... we are from the village of Qutana.
Ez niha dipirsim... Aslan Şêr çawa wekê dengbêjî, ji we ra dixwaze we em bi hev ra bixwînin. I ask now... How does Aslan Şêr as a singer, want us to sing together?
Rastî da wextê destpêka biçûk we, me dengê... divê em stranên gundê xwe bêjin Truthfully, when we were small in the beginning, we heard... we must sing the songs of our village.
Wexta we destpêkiriye çiqas stran çêkirin Since you started, how many songs have you created?
ew de gelek bû, li ser strana ku ev strana xweş. There have been many, especially on those beautiful songs.
Rast e, em bêjin.. teqîban min deh sal... heşt sal e min destpê kiriye.. destpêka destê xwe li vir me çêkir That's right, let's say... roughly 10 years... I started 8 years ago.. the beginning of my work was made here.
Tê we te wisa dengbêj bûye And that’s how you became a singer.
Paşî birê min... destê min wisa em bûn.. we dît, we çiqas xwe çêkir, beriya min... Then my brother... my hand was like this, we became... you saw, how much you did, before me...
Eger we tişt na, me heye, wisa... xort me rû... we em dengbêj bûn... eger stran me çêkir, divê em nav strana xwe çêkin. If nothing else, we have this, this way... the youth of our area... we became singers... if we made a song, we must mention it in our song.
Wek wî em dengbêjî, li kê yê wan Like that, becoming a singer, to whom do they belong?
Gelek me gund... de dît we wek em bi hev derdî... wisa min dît teqîban xwe de pirs. In many of our villages... they saw how we came together... that’s what I noticed quite frequently.
Eger werê ku we yê me.. eger em çêbûn em wekî strana.. em stranbêj bûn de me wisa destê xwe pêşî em bûn we wekî xwe.. dest bi sturana kir... Yes.
Eger werê ku we yê me.. eger em çêbûn em wekî strana.. em stranbêj bûn de me wisa destê xwe pêşî em bûn we wekî xwe.. dest bi sturana kir... If they come to us... if we grew up as singers... we became singers, we started like this, you became like yourself... and started making songs...
Eger me teqîbana xelat kir we wek ev destpêk If we somewhat awarded it, like this beginning.
te destpê kir dest bi suterana kir You started, started making songs.
Ez da'wetê gundê me da derdikevim, bi destpêkê yanî. Min got ev e stranê min derkeve... min çend stran çêkiriye, pênc şeş.. wisa heşt sedsalî stranên wek... I go out to perform at weddings in our village, mostly at the beginning. I said this is my song to put out... I've made several songs, five, six... like eight centuries-old songs...
Kasetek çêkir Made an album.
kasetê yekemîn A first album.
kasetê yekemîn The first album.
Min kasetek çêkir... ji studiyo we wextê wisa me stran çêkiriye wek.. pênc şeş stran me çêkiriye. Min êkê heta dawî me ev strana me we dît, we stran wek çêkir. I made an album... from the studio, back then we made songs like... we made five or six songs. From the beginning to the end, we saw our song, we made a song like that.
Dur ne em dest bi hunerê xwe kir? How long has it been since you started your art?
Wekî em bêjin, ev tiştek di hundirê te de bû... Let's say, this was something inside of you...
Ji zarokî de bû? Was it since childhood?
Ji zarokî de bû. Lê gel lekî da ku min dawet û miltan borî de, derî, def, cîyan derî... It was since childhood. But when I went to weddings and parties, doors, drums, places...
Hunermendê nêre, yanî, li ber meseleyê, te kî dîse kirî? Artists, I mean, beside the matter, who did you imitate?
Destpêkê te guhdar dida kî? Hunermendê herî navdar û kevin... Who did you listen to at the beginning? The most famous and old artists...
Destpêkê te ku min nedan, hunermendê herî navdar û kevin, zêdetir bêjin Reşîdê Mihemed Çoçan e. At the beginning when I wasn't known, the most famous and old artists, let's say mostly Reşîdê Mihemed Çoçan.
Hunermendê kevin e. He is an old artist.
Duyem, Mamoste Zekeriya Diljan hebû. Secondly, there was Teacher Zekeriya Diljan.
Piştî wî re, ez im, Ehmed Efrînî heye. After him, it's me, there is Ehmed Efrînî.
Hemûdê Nîşan heye, Evdê Îbrahîm niha derketî ye. There is Hemûdê Nîşan, Evdê Îbrahîm has come out now.
Ez mam, yanî, feterkî, ev jî, stran gotin. Piştî re dîgel êk bûn, em derdanî, li vir, dîketin Eref Kurdaxî... I stayed, I mean, for a while, they also sang songs. After that we became one, we released, here, Eref Kurdaxî fell...
Hemû yanî hunermend in, hemû jî stran in. All of them are artists, all of them are songs.
Hûn hemû heval in, hemû jî kevin in. You are all friends, all of them are old.
Hemû, hemî heval in, hemî kevin in, belê. All, all of them are friends, all of them are old, yes.
Û niha karê te çawa ye? And how is your work now?
Karê min, baş e, elhemdulîlah. Em stranan derdînin ji miletê xwe re, yanî, pêşkêş dikin... My work, it's good, thank God. We release songs for our people, I mean, we present...
Înşelleh milet ji me razî ye. Bi navî daweta jî, stranek kliba çêdikin jî... Hopefully, the people are satisfied with us. With the name of the wedding, we also make a song and a clip...
Ji me razî ne, elhemdulîlah. They are satisfied with us, thank God.
Kî kesekî herî pir, li kêlek te sekiniyê, te da'm kir, te teşcî' kir... Who has stood by you the most, supported you, encouraged you...
Em karin bêjin heta tu gihaştî vî tiştî û pêş ketî. We can say, until you reached this point, and progressed.
Birayê min. My brother.
Birayê te. Hûn çend bira ne? Your brother. How many brothers are you?
Em didu ne. We are two.
Birayê te zêde zehmet dît, yanî. Your brother has suffered a lot, I mean.
Birayê min zêde zehmet dît yanî. Carekê, heke bêjim... My brother has suffered a lot, I mean. Once, if I say...
Heke stranek çêbikim, wekî maddî gelek e. Carekê li Helebê... If I make a song, financially it's a lot. Once in Aleppo...
Got, "Te çima difikirî?" Min got, "Hunermendên Efrînê hemû stran çêdikin, stran jî li ser Efrînê bû." He said, "Why are you thinking?" I said, "All the artists of Afrin are making songs, the song was also about Afrin."
"Her yek stranek li ser Efrînê derdixe." Got, "Çiqas pere ye?" "Everyone is releasing a song about Afrin." He said, "How much money is it?"
Wê zemanî, yanî ez dibêjim çar hezar... Du hezar, dused wisa bû. Min got, "Çar hezar pere ye." At that time, I mean I say four thousand... Two thousand, two hundred it was like that. I said, "It's four thousand money."
Qilpekî daweta xwe derxist. Got, "Kere min firot û da min." He took out a clip of his wedding. He said, "I sold my donkey and gave it to me."
Birayê min pir li min piştgirî kiriye, bi her alîkarî kir. My brother supported me a lot, with all kinds of help.
Ev helwesta... te bandorek baş jê girt. This situation... you got a good effect from it.
Helwestên wiha hene, mişabeh... te bandor kir pir? Are there situations like this, similar... that influenced you a lot?
Kîjan ji me re bêjî? Which one can you tell us?
Welleh, helwesteke din, nizam. By God, another situation, I don't know.
Belkî hin hunermend hene, ew jî daxwaze di dilê wan de heye. Maybe there are some artists, they also have a wish in their hearts.
Di dilê wan de maye. Te daxwazek heye? Tu dixwazî pêşkêş bikî? It has remained in their hearts. Do you have a wish? You want to present?
Yanî, destpêkê demê mirov înşallah... Mirov xwedî pere be. I mean, at the beginning when a person hopefully... A person has money.
Dema bizreke te yê hunerî hebe... Dema bizir hebe... When you have an artistic seed... When there is a seed...
Tu nikarî kar bikî? You can't work?
Nikarî kar bikî. Yanî salek û didu, sê... tu xwe pêş naxî. Kesî destê min negirt. You can't work. I mean one year and two, three... you don't advance yourself. No one held my hand.
Ez pir tiştan derbas dibim, yanî ez pir tiştan derbas dibim, dibêjim, min xwe gihand. I go through many things, I mean I go through many things, I say, I reached myself.
Min xwe çênekiriye. Înşallah ez ê xwe çêbikim. Bi dilê miletê xwe. I haven't made myself. Hopefully I will make myself. To my people's heart.
Ez ê bi xurtî li ser xwe bixebitim, klîb, stran, hemî... I will strongly work on myself, clips, songs, all...
Stûdyo, teçhîzat... li ser xwe bixebitim, û înşallah ez ê xwe bigihînim hedefa xwe. Studio, equipment... work on myself, and hopefully I will reach my goal.
Em dixwazin werin ser aliyê xwendina te. Xwendina te çawa bû? We want to come to the side of your study. How was your study?
Te destpêkê li ku xwend? Te berdewam kir, te berdewam nekir? Where did you study at the beginning? Did you continue, did you not continue?
Li gund bû, mekteba gund bû min xwend. It was in the village, it was the village school I studied.
Xwendina min rind bû. Yanî, mamoste hebûn, digotin xwendina min rind bû. My study was good. I mean, there were teachers, they said my study was good.
Min dereceya yekê, duyan dianî. Wekî dibêjim... I used to get the first degree, the second. As I say...
Ez sefa heftê û heştê... vê tembûrê ket hembêza min. In the seventh and eighth grade... this lute fell into my embrace.
Xwendin jî te hişt? Did you leave the studies too?
Xwendin jî wek ku min hişt. Bes, yanî mirov nabe poşman dibe, yanî mirov gerek... It's like I left the studies too. But, I mean a person shouldn't regret, I mean a person must...
Gerek mirov hem xwendina xwe bi ser bixe, û hem hunera xwe bi ser bixe. A person must succeed in both his studies, and succeed in his art.
Gerek mirov her duyan bi hev re bibe. Wê demê min nekariya her duyan bikim. A person must take both together. At that time I couldn't do both.
Min riya hunerê tenê girt, derhal min xwendina xwe hişt. I took the path of art only, immediately I left my study.
Te karî din... ji xeynî karî hunerî, te kirî? Did you do another job... besides artistic work, did you do it?
Na, ez karê cilan... ez terzî me, şixulîm. No, I clothes work... I am a tailor, I work.
Tu xeyat î, terzî yî. You are a tailor, a seamster.
Ez xeyat im. Xeyatî şixulîm, du kar kirin. I am a tailor. Tailoring I worked, did two jobs.
Heya ev çend salan? Berî vê çend sal bû? Until these years? How many years ago was this?
Ew karkirin? Du hezar û deh, du hezar û yazdeh... That work? Two thousand and ten, two thousand and eleven...
Destpêka te bû? Was it your beginning?
Destpêka min bû. It was my beginning.
Çaxê derketim û hatim emrê xwe mezin bû, ez tenê hatim ser dawetan... Dawetan dest pê kir. When I went out and my age got older, I only came to weddings... Weddings started.
Kîjan bûyerek, an helwestek, tu qet bîr nakî? Which event, or situation, you never forget?
Ku bandorek... yan pozîtîv li te kir, yan negatîv? Tu dikarî ji me re bêjî? That influenced you... either positively, or negatively? Can you tell us?
Mesele helwesta di... For example, the situation in...
Bûyera te. Your event.
Na, helwesta îcabî. Ez dikarim bêjim... No, positive situation. I can say...
Ez di koma Stêrê de bûm. Zarokî me, em dilîzin. I was in the Ster group. My childhood, we are playing.
Yek ji endamên me... gundî me, Bavê Selah, Apê Selah. One of our members... our villager, Father of Selah, Uncle Selah.
Carekê min derxist ser dikê. Di dawetan de... dawetên me yên millî di Newrozan de. Once he brought me to the stage. At weddings... our national weddings at Newroz.
Carekê mîkrofon da min... Once he gave me the microphone...
Got, "Xwe re bibêje Aslan Şêr." Min got, "Ev Aslan Şêr çawa hat?" He said, "Call yourself Aslan Ser." I said, "How did this Aslan Ser come?"
Navê min Aslan Salih e. My name is Aslan Salih.
Navê te Aslan Salih e. Your name is Aslan Salih.
Çawa hat? Çima Aslan Şêr? How did it come? Why Aslan Ser?
"Bi navê xwe meke Aslan Salih." Ji xwe navê wî jî weke Aslan Şêr dihate gotin... "Don't name yourself Aslan Salih." Actually his name was also called like Aslan Ser...
Bavê Selah tu wisa bi nav dikirî? Did Father of Selah name you like that?
Ewî nav li min kir. Bavê Selah selavên min jê re hene, ew jî di koma Stêrê de, di Newrozê de derdixist. He named me. My greetings to Father of Selah, he was also bringing out the Ster group at Newroz.
Carekê mîkrofon da min, got, "Xwe re bibêje Aslan Şêr." Once he gave me the microphone, he said, "Call yourself Aslan Ser."
Xortên gundî çawa hatin gotin, Aslan Şêr, Aslan Şêr... Nav li min ket, navekî xweş e. How the village youths came saying, Aslan Ser, Aslan Ser... The name stuck to me, it's a nice name.
Min ev nav hilbijart û paşê ez pê kêfxweş bûm. I chose this name and then I was happy with it.
Ew çend salî bû? Kîjan salê bû? How old was he? What year was it?
Salên du hezar û şeşan, du hezar û pêncan. In the years of two thousand and six, two thousand and five.
Pişt re min kasetekî xwe çêkir, min navê xwe kir Aslan Şêr. Ew nav hat ser min. After that I made my own cassette, I named myself Aslan Ser. That name came to me.
Niha em zanebûn te navê Aslan Şêr danî, em qet nizanibûn te... Now we know you put the name Aslan Ser, we never knew you...
Na, navê min ew e. Bavê Selah nav li min kir. No, that is my name. Father of Selah named me.
Ev aliyê îcabî bû... tu tiştekî din ku bandorek negatîv li te kir? This was the positive side... anything else that had a negative impact on you?
Yan helwestek te pê hesiya? Or a situation you felt?
Wellehî na tîne... By God, I can't recall...
Mesele weke te qala birayê te kir ku pere kêm bûn, we kasetek firot? Tu tiştekî bîne bîra xwe, van çend salan de? Like when you mentioned your brother that money was short, you sold a cassette? Can you remember anything, in these past years?
Welleh tiştekî bîra min nîne. By God, I don't remember anything.
Tiştên selbî nîne. Carekê di jiyana min de, ne ku dilê min ketiye... There are no negative things. Once in my life, not that I fell in love...
Her kesî ku ez aciz kiribim jî, ez dilê xwe jê naêşînim. Kesek min eciz nake. Even if I have annoyed everyone, I don't hurt my heart from it. No one annoys me.
Tiştê selbî... pir derbas nebûne. Heke tiştekî şaş derbas bûbe jî, ez wî ji bîr dikim. Negative things... haven't passed much. Even if a mistake passed, I forget it.
Ez di dilê xwe de ranagirim. Yanî min şaşîtiyek kir... I don't hold it in my heart. I mean I made a mistake...
Em hevdû musamehe dikin. We forgive each other.
Em dixwazin niha te stranekê bibêjî. Em dengê te bibihîzin. We want you to sing a song now. We want to hear your voice.
Heke stranekê bêjim... ji zaroktiya xwe de ev stran... If I sing a song... from my childhood this song...
Ya apê min, bavê min, mirovên min... stran digotin. Of my uncle, my father, my relatives... they sang songs.
Bavê Selah bi van stranan gelekî ez pê nas kirim. Yanî ev strana me. Father of Selah introduced me a lot with these songs. I mean this song of ours.
Gava wî digot, ev stran li min xweş dihatin. Ev strana "Genc Osman", bavê Selah ez jê fêr bûm. When he sang it, these songs pleased me. This song "Genc Osman", I learned it from Father of Selah.
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Lê anê... Oh mother...
Lê anê, genc im dila xwe da ye gencan e. Oh mother, I am young, my heart is with the young.
Lê anê, ez nizanim... Oh mother, I don't know...
Gencanê mino çi qas ji xelkê re ne, ez bi ser ketime. My youths, how much they belong to the people, I have fallen in love.
Lê anê... Oh mother...
Lê anê, nizam bi çi giraniya dilê xwe ranakim. Oh mother, I don't know with what weight I can lift my heart.
Ketime nexweşiya vî derdî, nexweşiya eşqê ye. I fell into the sickness of this pain, it is the sickness of love.
Lê anê... çêkere tabîetê min çi qas xerab e. Oh mother... the maker of my nature is so bad.
Dibê dilê min firiye nav filan û bêvan e. It means my heart flew among this and that.
Siba xatirê we ye, ez ê herim bajarê Entabê... Tomorrow for your sake, I will go to the city of Antep...
Li cem hekîm, qismeta min tune ye. With the doctor, there is no destiny for me.
Helam lo, canê min can sekeşe... qesa min nîne. My cure, oh, my soul hurts... I have no words.
Lê anê, li ser hekîmê nav bajarê Entabê sere xwe ranakim. Oh mother, I will not lift my head upon the doctor in the city of Antep.
Lo genco mino... nexweşiya te ne nexweşiya derman e. Oh my youth... your illness is not an illness for medicine.
Ne ji agirekî ye, ku tu jê zanî, wey... Not from a fire, that you know of, oh...
Nexweşiya te... wêranê te... derde eşqê ye. Your illness... your ruin... is the pain of love.
Sere me qurbano, dermanê te... May our head be a sacrifice, your medicine...
Dermanê te... ne li cem min e, ne li bajarê Xweşê ye, ne li bajarê Helebê ye... Your medicine... is neither with me, nor in the city of Xwese, nor in the city of Aleppo...
Ne li bajarê Entabê ye. Nor is it in the city of Antep.
Lo genco mino... ne cem hekîman, ne cem luqman e... Oh my youth... not with doctors, not with Luqmans...
Ava te, dermanê te, evîn e... Your water, your medicine, is love...
Zeman e, zeman e, gencê min û nexweşiya zeman e yî It is the times, it is the times, my youth and the sickness of the times.
Tê herê te koda çiyayê Kurda yî You will go to the Kurdish mountains.
Derman û ilacê te cem keça bîk e serpaşê Şikaka Your medicine and cure is with the bride girls of the Shikak tribe.
Ez bi qurban o cem naza min î na lo lo lo lo I would be a sacrifice for my coy one, oh lo lo lo lo.
Ê de baş o de baş o de baş o, gencê min baş o rîhdirêj min baş o Oh well done, well done, well done, my youth well done, my long-bearded one well done.
Lo lo lo lo lo de baş o, gencê min baş o baş o. Lo lo lo lo well done, my youth well done, well done.
Gelekî xweş bû. That was very beautiful.
Dengê te sax be. Thank you.
Dengê te sax be. Bless your voice.
Tu kanî stranekî din, noka hevane, stranek te ye? Can you sing another song now, is this a song of yours?
Na, ev stran ê bav û kal a, stranekî folklorî ye. No, this is a song of our ancestors, it's a folklore song.
Belê, ez dixwazim niha straneke yê te be, tu bêjî. Stranek te çêkiriye. Yes, I want you to sing a song of yours now. A song you've made.
A, ezê vê stranê diyarî bikim, hawa jî... Yeah, I will dedicate this song to the viewers too...
Vê dawiyê da ev stran min derxist, klîbek pê re çêkir. Recently I released this song, I made a clip for it.
Û pir, gelekî însan jê hez kir, ez dixwazim... And very, many people liked it, I want...
"De dîsa rabin werin, em Efrîna xwe şên bikin", navê vê stranê, silavên dil... "Come stand up again, let's build our Afrin", the name of this song, heartfelt greetings...
Gotin û awaz Xalidê Mistê Kalo ye, silavên min jê re hene. Lyrics and melody are by Xalid of Miste Kalo, my greetings to him.
De dîsa rabin werin, em Efrîna xwe şên bikin Come stand up again, let's build our Afrin.
Çi hebû û çi tune bû, em giştî ji bîr bikin Whatever happened and didn't happen, let's forget it all.
Em bi hev ra ji bîr bikin Let's forget it all together.
Bang dikim bangawaz dikim, silavên dil ez rêz dikim I am calling out and announcing, I am lining up heartfelt greetings.
Dengbêj û xwendevan e, karker û cotkar hozan e Singers and students, workers and farmers are poets.
Karker û cotkar hozan e Workers and farmers are poets.
Bi hev ra çêkin seyranan, dawetên me serbêderayî Let's have picnics together, our weddings are outstanding.
Li ba kin şal û desmalan, sergovendî û ewil e Wave the shawls and handkerchiefs, the head of the dance is first.
Kom bibin li îdan û erefata yî, bi civîna umeta yî Gather on Eids and Arafat, with the gathering of the community.
Bi ronahiya hîva gunda yî, çêkin ken û suhbetan With the moonlight of the villages, let's laugh and converse.
Çêkin ken û suhbetayî Let's laugh and converse.
Bi ronahiya hîva gunda yî, çêkin ken û suhbetayî With the moonlight of the villages, let's laugh and converse.
Çêkin ken û suhbetayî Let's laugh and converse.
De dîsa rabin werin, em Efrîna xwe şên bikin Come stand up again, let's build our Afrin.
Çi hebû û çi tune bû, em giştî ji bîr bikin Whatever happened and didn't happen, let's forget it all.
Em bi hev ra şên bikin Let's build it together.
Dengê te sax be, spasîya te dikim. Bless your voice, I thank you.
Spas xweş dîsa. Thanks to you too again.
Belê, temaşevanên me yî hêja. Yes, our dear viewers.
Niha em gihîştin dawiya xeleka bernameya xwe, bernameya Gund û Welat. Now we have reached the end of the episode of our program, the program Village and Country.
Bi hêvî me ku ev xelek we xweş dîtibe. I hope you enjoyed this episode.
Û em ê niha xatirê xwe ji we bixwazin. And we will say goodbye to you now.
Em ê bi stranekî, hunermendê me Eslan Şêro wê ji me ra bibêje. We will end with a song that our artist Eslan Shero will sing for us.
Niha em xatirê xwe ji we dixwazin, ji gundê Ewarên Kotana. Now we say goodbye to you, from the village of Ewaren Kotana.
Kerem bikin. Go ahead.
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Min yarek dîbû, li nav bîrîyê I saw a lover among the milkmaids.
Li nav hemî keça, perîyek dîtîye Among all the girls, I saw a fairy.
Carkî li min nerî, dilê min birî ye She looked at me once, she took my heart.
Dilê min lawikî ji min birî ye She took the heart of me, the young boy.
Nikarim deng lêkim, qîza begay e I cannot call out to her, she is the daughter of a bey.
Ez lawikê sêwî me, l'tiştekî min tuneye I am an orphan boy, I have nothing.
Navê min şivan e, li gundê way e I am a shepherd in their village.
Ez xerîbê warê, bav û kalay e I am a stranger to the land of my ancestors.
Nikarim deng lêkim, qîza begay e I cannot call out to her, she is the daughter of a bey.
Ez lawikê sêwî me, l'tiştekî min tuneye I am an orphan boy, I have nothing.
Navê min şivan e, li gundê way e I am a shepherd in their village.
Ez xerîbê warê, bav û kalay e I am a stranger to the land of my ancestors.
Min yarek dîbû, li nav bîrîyê I saw a lover among the milkmaids.
Li nav hemî keça, perîyek dîtîye Among all the girls, I saw a fairy.
Carkî li min nerî, dilê min birî ye She looked at me once, she took my heart.
Dilê min lawikî ji min birî ye She took the heart of me, the young boy.
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