birth_place nationality birth_date article_title name occupation
diyarbakır , turkey kurdish 10 may 1953 yekta uzunoglu
 yekta uzunoglu writer , translator , physician , entrepreneur
yekta uzunoglu

yekta uzunoglu or -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- b. 1953 silvan , diyarbakır , turkey -rrb- , is a contemporary kurdish writer , translator , physician and entrepreneur .
in 1971 , he moved to paris to study french .
from 1973 to 1979 , thanks to scholarship granted to him by the last kurdish prince celadet bedir khan , he studied general medicine at the charles university in prague .
he became involved in the resistance movement against the communist regime of czechoslovakia after 1968 .
when in 1975 the regime of gustáv husák began to hand kurdish students over to saddam hussein , he was among a group of kurdish students who organized an illegal hunger strike in the compound of the swedish embassy in prague .
during his studies , he has also been publishing his writings on kurds in an illegal samizdat publishing house `` ararat '' , which he found in 1976 .
after completing his studies , he was expelled from the czech republic and returned to paris .
he dropped the research scholarship in prestigious pasteur institute , and instead got involved in doctors without borders as a volunteer -lrb- he set up numerous field hospitals there -rrb- in iranian kurdistan , that has been currently rebelling against newly established islamic republic of iran .
for his involvement in the kurdish issue , turkey revoked his passport , and he has been granted a refugee status in germany in 1981 .
two years later , he was one of the founding members of institut kurde de paris and also kurdische institut in bonn , which he led until 1988 as a director .
after the velvet revolution , he returned to prague , where he became a successful entrepreneur .
his career ended prematurely in 1994 , when he was arrested and unsuccessfully tried for next 12 years , when he was acquitted of guilt , after all accusations were proven to be false .
he received the františek kriegel prize for civic courage in 2006 .
