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Musa Anter (Şeyhmus Elmas) was born on 1920 in Nusaybin, Ottoman Empire, is a Kurdish-Turkish writer and activist. Discover Musa Anter's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

Popular As Şeyhmus Elmas
Occupation Writer, political activist
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign
Born 1920
Birthday 1920
Birthplace Nusaybin, Ottoman Empire
Date of death 20 September, 1992
Died Place Diyarbakır, Turkey
Nationality Oman

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His wife is Ayşe Hanım (m. 1944)

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1924

His birth date is not known; he was first registered as born in 1924, and then in 1920, but based on his mother's account, who said that Anter was born after the judgement over the Christians, Anter assumed to have been born in either 1917 or 1918.

He completed his primary education in Mardin, and then studied at junior and senior high school in Adana.

During his high school studies, the Dersim rebellion led by Seyid Riza was going on, which lead to some frictions with his Turkish classmates following which he was shortly detained.

1941

By 1941, he left for Istanbul to study Law.

While studying, he was able to run a catering business for the mostly Kurdish students of the Dicle and Firat student halls.

During his time at the university, he had often been to Syria during his summer holidays and came into acquaintance with Kurdish nationalist intellectuals such as Celadet and Kamuran Bedir Khan, Kadri and Ekrem Cemilpaşa, Dr. Nafiz, Nûredin Zaza, Nuri Dersimi, Qedrîcan, Osman Sabri, Haco Agha and his son Hasan, Emînê Perîxanê's son Şikriye Emîn, Mala Elyê Unus, Teufo Ciziri and Cigerxwîn.

1944

In 1944, he married Ayşe Hanım, the daughter of.

Ayse was a member of a noble Kurdish family and had studied in a German school in Istanbul.

At one moment, he even helped to organize an event for the German Ambassador to Turkey Franz von Papen.

Following his military service in the Turkish army, he settled in Diyarbakir, where he became a manager of a Hotel nearby the NATO military base.

Anter actively promoted the use of the Kurdish language with his journalistic work, which caused him quite some turmoil during his lifetime.

Musa Anter and Ayşe Hanım married in 1944.

His wife was a descendant of Bedir Khan Beg and related to the AKP politician Cuneyd Zapsu.

1950

During the 1950s, he established three media outlets: Şark Mecmuasi, (1951), Şark Postasi (1954) and İleri Yurt (1958).

1959

Anter was arrested in 1959, after publishing the Kurdish-language poem Qimil in the newspaper İleri Yurt.

His arrest provoked a wave of Kurdish protests, in the aftermath of which a trial against fifty Kurdish intellectuals began, known as the "".

He eventually served some time in prison but was soon released due to an amnesty.

1963

In 1963, Musa Anter and 23 other intellectuals were arrested and sentenced to 3 years for allegedly having attempted to establish an independent Kurdish state.

1964

He was released in 1964.

1965

In the General elections of 1965 he was an independent candidate for Diyarbakir but was not elected.

1967

Ferhenga Kurdî (Kurdish Dictionary), 1967

1970

In 1970, he was one of the charged in the trial of the Revolutionary Cultural Eastern Hearths (DDKO) members.

Three years after his release, he settled in Aksaru, a village in the Nusaybin district.

1980

Following the coup d'etat in 1980, he was shortly jailed for "Kurdish propaganda" in Nusaybin.

1985

Ümit Cizre claimed that Abdülkadir Aygan, a former member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) who had surrendered in 1985, who had been posteriorly recruited as part of the first staff of the JİTEM (the Turkish Gendarmerie's Intelligence and Counter-terrorism Service), reported having been part of a JİTEM unit and, alongside a "Hamit" from Şırnak, had assassinated Musa Anter.

The former Major of the Turkish army Cem Ersever claimed that the murder was facilitated by Alaattin Kanat, a former PKK member who was shortly released during the time of the assassination.

Özgür Politika (and now-defunct Gülen movement newspaper) Zaman claimed that the perpetrator was PKK defector Murat İpek, who had allegedly received orders from the Turkish state's contract killer Mahmut Yıldırım (alias "Yeşil"), or Yeşil himself.

1990

In June 1990, he was one of the eighty-one founding members of the People's Labour Party (HEP).

1991

He later supported the establishments of the Mesopotamian Cultural Center in 1991 and the Kurdish Institute in Istanbul in 1992.

1992

Musa Anter (1920 – 20 September 1992), also known as "Apê Musa" (Apê Musa, literally "Uncle Musa"), was a Kurdish writer, journalist and intellectual.

Anter was assassinated by Turkish JITEM in September 1992.

He was born in the Eskimağara (Zivingê) village in Mardin Province.

Originally named Şeyhmus Elmas after Sheikh Şeyhmus, and Elmas (Diamond in Turkish) was the surname given by the Turkish authorities, he later wanted to be called Musa Anter.

He was born into a respected family and after the death of his father, his mother became the Muhtar of the village who communicated with the tax collectors.

Anter was shot on 20 September 1992 in an incident in which Orhan Miroğlu was also seriously injured.

1997

In 1997, the Turkish Human Rights Association (IHD) supported a peace initiative called the Musa Anter Peace Train.

2006

After long investigations, Turkish Gendarmerie Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism was found guilty of Anter's assassination by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in 2006, which sentenced Turkey to a fine of 28,500 Euros.

2013

A Diyarbakır court in 2013 allegedly charged four individuals with Anter's murder, including Mahmut Yıldırım (alias "Yeşil") and Abdülkadir Aygan.

He is viewed as an important and influential Kurdish poet and author.

He wrote for numerous publications such as İleri Yurt, Deng, Yön, Özgür Gündem, Dicle-Firat, Barış Dünyası amongst others and was also the author of a Kurdish-language dictionary.