Kurdish Journalism Day

Culture of origin: Kurdish · Cultural

Holiday sources: Kurdish

Kurdistan, the first Kurdish newspaper, was first published on 22 April 1898 in Cairo by Miqdad Midhat Bedir Khan. An opposition paper published in exile, outside the Ottoman Empire, it printed 31 issues in four years in Cairo, Geneva, London and Folkestone; its first issues were in Kurmanji alone. The day had long been marked by Kurdish journalists, and in April 2021, 123 years later, the Kurdistan Parliament made it the official Kurdish Journalism Day by 101 votes.