Hayranok or Short Kurdish Folk Songs compose a distinguishing part of the Kurdish literature. They pass the images and tales of traditions, norms, and the culture of Kurdish people through generations. The depiction of Kurdish boys and girls is clearly observed in Hayranoks. As folk literature covers a wide range branches such as drama, poetry, novel, ... etc., Hayranoks portray dramatic scenes between Kurdish boys and girls. They, more specifically, illustrate the dramatic conflicts these characters undergo to give an image about the conflicts of Kurdish people in life towards tbe challenges and the social factors. Therefore, this paper attempt to practically study the types of conflicts in the dramatic scenes of Hayranoks.
A number of Hayranoks are selected as data for this study. The data covers different types of conflicts; however, in this paper, the conflicts of man versus society and versus himself are selected since these types are common in Kurdish Hayranok.
Keywords: hayranok, drama conflicts, types of conflicts, man versus himself, man versus societ.
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