Viyan Peyman

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Viyan Peyman
Born
Gülistan Tali Cinganlo

Maku, Iranian Kurdistan
Died6 April 2015
Sere Kaniye, Syria
Cause of deathKIA
Resting placeŞehit Rüstem Cudi Martyrs' Cemetery, Dirbêsiyê
NationalityKurdish
OccupationSinger/songwriter, Kurdish resistance fighter
Known forFighting ISIL, traditional Kurdish folk songs

Viyan Peyman (originally Gülistan Tali Cinganlo) was a Kurdish singer and fighter with the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) who was killed fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria in 2015.

Cinganlo was from the town of Maku, in Iranian Kurdistan. Before the Syrian Civil War, she was a teacher.[1][2] Cinganlo was a folk singer, and wrote her own music in traditional Kurdish folk style.[3][4] She was known as a dengbêj, a folk singer or storyteller, for her songs about the Kurdish resistance to the Islamic State in the Rojava-Islamist conflict, and her fellow fighters who had died.[5][6]

Cinganlo was injured twice, shot in her leg and stomach, but returned to continue fighting.[1] She told NBC News that she was fighting in the Siege of Kobane for the women of the Middle East: "We stand and fight, especially here in the Middle East where women are treated as inferiors. We stand here as symbols of strength for all the women of the region."[7]

Cinganlo was killed while fighting the Islamic State on 6 April 2015.[7][8] The battle for Kobane ended in January 2015, and Cinganlo was killed in the town of Sere Kaniye on the Syria-Turkey border, where she had gone in mid-February.[2] She was buried in the Şehit Rüstem Cudi Martyrs' Cemetery in Dirbêsiyê.[9] Many artists around the world highlighted Cinganlo's life in their works after her death.

The Kurdish musician Shahriyar Jamshidi has devoted his composition "Viyan" from his 2020 released My Sunset-Land ROJAVA album to Cinganlo, celebrating her life as a Kurdish singer from Iran where there are legal restrictions on women's public singing.[10][11]

Resources[]

Viyan Peyman singing in Kobane on YouTube

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Engel in Kobani: Women Are on the Front Lines Against ISIS". NBC News. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
  2. ^ a b "Şehit Viyan'ın son günleri..." Rudaw. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
  3. ^ "poptronics ' Le Rojava, terre de lutte féministe, à la kalach et en musique". www.poptronics.fr. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
  4. ^ "Viyan Peyman - New Songs, Playlists & Latest News - BBC Music" (in British English). Retrieved 2019-03-05.
  5. ^ "Viyan Peyman immortalizes in Kobanê". www.diclehaber.com. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
  6. ^ Teams, Clipnano com. "Viyan Peyman - Kobane 2015 - Reber Dosky". Clipnano.com. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
  7. ^ a b "Viyan Peyman, Female Kurdish Fighter Killed Battling ISIS". NBC News. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
  8. ^ Llibertat.cat. "Mor la combatent de l'YPJ i cantant kurda Viyan Peyman". Llibertat.cat (in Catalan). Retrieved 2019-03-05.
  9. ^ "JINHA || jinhaber1.com". www.jinhaber1.com. Retrieved 2020-05-02.
  10. ^ "Viyan". Canuckistan. Retrieved 2020-10-22. …With the opening piece, 'Viyan', Jamshidi remembers Kurdish-Iranian singer Viyan Peyman, a Dengbej (storyteller) and teacher who left her hometown and all her belongings to join the resistance in Rojava and lost her life in 2015.
  11. ^ "Shahriyar Jamshidi - Viyan [My Sunset-Land ROJAVA Album © 2020]". YouTube. Retrieved 2021-04-03.
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