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The life of Âşık Selim Ciziri, who continued the kasidevan tradition after the Dengbej tradition, was turned into a documentary with the language of witnesses and relatives.

The life of Cizreli Dengbej and Kasidevan Âsik Selim became a documentary A documentary about the dengbej and kasidevan aspect of Dengbej "Asik Selim Ciziri", who lives in Sirnak's Cizre district, was shot. The life of Minstrel Selim Ciziri, who made great contributions to the poetry and görkem tradition in Cizre as he continued the tradition of being a kasidevan after the dengbej tradition and contributed to the continuation of Cizre's literary tradition and keeping this tradition alive, was turned into a documentary with the language of witnesses and relatives. Documentary producer Abdulaziz Bilge stated that his aim was to reconsider Selim Selim's upbringing odes, his rich life story, which has turned into a return from Dengbej.

"From Dengbej to Kasidevan" Abdulaziz Bilge

Stating that Asik Selim Ciziri turned to Kasidevan after his Sufi repentance, documentary producer Bilge said, "This will be my second feature-length documentary work. Now, the documentary Asik Selim Ciziri, whose last scene we shot, has become. Since his main occupation was Tinsmithing since he was little, he traveled from city to city, from land to land, from village to village, from mountain to town. On this occasion, he has witnessed the life stories of many people. He expressed these sad and dramatic aspects of the people he witnessed by writing and feeding them both verbally and with instruments. We see that Âsik Selim Ciziri (Sevimli), a versatile dengbej, has reached a different turning point after the middle of his life. Here, too, he goes to a different stage by making his Sufi repentance. Asik Selim, who turned to Sufism, also comes to the fore as a kasidevan, and it is of great importance with his odes that he read in this second period. Especially in his own works, Mem u Zin is described at length. After his story ended and his poetic story finished, this time we did not encounter anyone similar to Asik Selime Ciziri in terms of telling these stories with his musical instrument. in this respect, it has a very important place in Cizre. i would like to express that its versatility has added a great wealth to us, especially in terms of documentary. Dengbej, kasidevan When you look at Asik Selim Ciziri, we see that the scholars known in the region recite the odes with a burning and burning voice. in this respect, he continued the tradition of kasidevanizm. Our aim in making the documentary of Âsik selim Ciziri is to bring such rich people to light again and to prevent the loss of our values." said.

Sidar Cute, who was filming his grandfather's documentary, said, "it was a great honor for me that my grandfather's life was a documentary and i took part in this documentary. it is up to us to continue my grandfather's tradition of being a kasidevan. i will strive to be like him and be on his way." used his statements. Selim Cute, who is famous with the nickname "Asik Selim", was born in Cizre in 1938. Within the framework of the practice of his profession, he traveled from village to village and worked as a tinsmith. Later, he started to work as a worker in the Cizre branch of the General Directorate of Highways and retired from this institution.

Selim, who likes playing the saz and dimmer as a hobby, has numerous Kurdish folk songs and eulogies related to this. At the same time, Selim, who was knowledgeable about Kurdish culture and history, used to talk about them whenever possible. For this reason, Âsik Selim Ciziri often received letters from the ministry of culture.