Haji Qadir Koyi

He wanted to enlighten the people and help them to remedy the problems of illiteracy and backwardness and ideas which result from lack of knowledge and religious fanaticism.

He encouraged people instead to turn to science and to the realities of modern society in the struggle to liberate and build an independent Kurdistan.

Koyi attacked the shaikhs and mullahs who did not care for the Kurdish language and the notables who ignored the destinies of their people.

Living his last years in cosmopolitan Istanbul, he was familiar with the nationalist struggles and the material advancement of modern nations.

Calling on the Kurds, in the 1880s, to unite and form their own independent state, he also urged them to use the modern tools such as newspapers and magazines for mass communication.