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Sakina


Sakîna Têyna is a Kurdish singer and journalist, living in Austria Sakina was born in 1973 in Northwest-Kurdistan. She drop out her studies of health, to devote herself to journalism. In the course of their political and cultural activities, she joined the association Navenda Çanda Mezopotamya (Turkish Kültür Merkezi Mezopotamya / English Cultural Center Mesopotamia) which was very significant for so many other Kurdish bands in Turkey. Sakina was a friend of in battle resistance fallen female fighter Beritan. Like other Kurdish artists and journalists, Sakina was due to their article, in which she wrote about the Kurdish question, and the Kurdish songs she sang, political repressed by the Turkish state. Because of her impending persecution and high risk going to jail she fled in 2006 from Turkey and came as a political refugee to Austria, where she presented an application for asylum. Four of her brothers live in Germany. Sakina currently lives in Vienna, and is very active as a singer and orginazer in music business. She also writes as a columnist in women's newspaper Newaya Jin and the daily newspaper Özgur Politika Yeniden and plays in theater performances. Download an interview with Eva Brenner and Sakina (in German and Kurdish) from 28/04/2009 in the series Global Dialogues - Women on Air on the Austrian radio station Orange 94.0 here: http://sendungsarchiv.o94.at/get.php?id=094pr3420 Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative C...

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