Personalities

Mehmed Emin Bozarslan (1935)

He was born in 1935 in Axamed (Amed, Díyar bash, Díyarbekir), North Kurdistan (Turkey). He moved to Sweden as political asylum seeker in 1978, and he has been living in Uppsala Sweden since then.

Before he come to Sweden as political asylum seeker, he managed to publish 17 books, some in Kurdish and some in Turkish. The most famous and noticeable one of these published books was "ALFABE" which was the first ABC-Book for Kurdish learning that was published in North Kurdistan up to 1968. The books was abounded immediately by Turkish court. Emín was arrested and jailed under separatisms changes. He was released after a while but jailed again in another occasion under military regime from spring 1971 to summer of 1974.

During this time he has lived in Sweden, he has published the secound (1980), thried (1988) and the forth (1993) edition of his famouse ABC-book "ALFABE".

Publications

• ALFABE - 4th EditionUppsala : Deng, 1993. - 64 s. : ill. - ISBN 91-88246-04-3
• ALFABE - 3rd Edition Uppsala : Deng, 1988. - 64 s. : ill. - ISBN 91-970702-5-4 Capa
• ALFABE - 2nd Edition - Borås : Invandrarförl., 1980. 64 s. : ill. - ISBN 91-85242-33-0
• ALFABE - First Edition, Istanbul, 1968