The flowers of Kurdistan, by their Kurdish names.

Every flower with its names in each Kurdish dialect, when it blooms, and its story.

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Today’s flower

Friday 16 October

Jasmine
JasmineJasminumKurmanji: Yasmîn

At first, because of its benefits, only the family of the Chinese emperor had the right to use jasmine. Whatever one says about these flowers, their tea, their oil, their fragrance and their medicines have filled the world, so that there is hardly anyone who has not heard of jasmine. It grows in mos

Did you know?It flowers from June to November.
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On 05-08-1997, when I arrived in Europe as a refugee, the most painful question for me was this: “Which country have you come from?” I said: “I am from Kurdistan.” They said to…

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