The former mayor of Suri Amed presented Ahmadi Khani's book, (Mam and Zin), and a rug of Kurdish women from East Kurdistan to the Pope.
 Abdullah Demir Bash, former mayor of Suri Amed, told Darw Media: “We met Pope Francis in the Vatican yesterday and talked to him for about 12 minutes, and I gave him two symbolic gifts”.
Demir Bash said, “the first gift was Ahmadi Khani's book, the Identity of the Kurdish Language. And the second one was the message of the Kurdish women from East of Kurdistan, which is (Jin - Jiyan – Azadi): Women, Life, Freedom.”
Demir Bash added that, “We asked the Pope to pray for freedom and a peaceful solution to the Kurdish problem.”
Abdullah Demirbaş is a politician from North Kurdistan who has been living abroad for several years due to the policies of the Turkish state.