Songwriters used to be poets!

Yunus Reuf and Mikael Nalbandian

The kurdish and the armenian national anthems does not have the same structure but the context is the same; nationalistic, loud and proud!
The authors of the anthems is both poets, Mikael Nalbandian (1829-1866) was a writer that was largely self-educated wrote the the armenian national anthem Mer Hayrenik (Our fatherland) and Dildar (real name was Yunis Reuf) was a poet studiyng law in Kirkuk that wrote the kurdish national anthem in 1938 in a prison in west Kurdistan (iranian).

Sivan Perwer singing Ey Reqib

Ey Reqib (Hey Enemy!)
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Hey enemy, the Kurdish nation is alive with its language
Can not be defeated by the weapons of any time
Let no one say Kurds are dead
Kurds are living

Kurds are living, their flag will never fall
We are the children of Medya and Keyhusrew
Both our faith and religion are our homeland
Both our faith and religion are Kurd and Kurdistan

Let no one say Kurds are dead
Kurds are living
Kurds are living, their flag will never fall
We, the youth are the red colour of the revolution

Watch our blood that we shed on this way
Let no one say Kurds are dead
Kurds are living
Kurds are living, their flag will never fall

Elder people singing their national anthem Mer Hayrenik

Mer Hayrenik (Our fatherland!)
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Our fatherland, free and independent,
That has lived for centuries
Calls on its children now,
Free independent Armenia.

Here brother, for you a flag,
That I made with my hands
At nights I did not sleep,
I washed it with tears.

Look at it, in three colours
It is our gifted symbol.
Let it shine against the enemy.
Let Armenia always be glorious.
Everywhere death is the same
A man will only die once
But fortunate is he
who dies for the freedom of his nation.