Grup Yorum
Grup Yorum is a band from Turkey known for their leftist songwriting. The group members have been persecuted by the Turkish government for many years, they have been arrested and jailed again and again and even tortured. But the band "remains popular and their albums continue to sell well in Turkey and internationally."
Here you can see a picture I took during the great concert the band gave at the Volksstimmefest 2013 in Vienna.
But the latest news I heard about Grup Yorum aren't exactly good: two of their members recently died of the hunger strike they had begun "in protest to the treatment the band received from the Turkish Government":
Helin Bölek and Ibrahim Gökçek
The day after Ibrahim Gökçek's death the myrmidons of the Turkish terrorist regime raided the funeral using teargas, arrested mourners and seized his coffin.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grup_Yorum
www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/08/lonely-death-of-gru...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmfZPfsvRro&list=TL6GrxKCu22w8
Grup Yorum
Grup Yorum is a band from Turkey known for their leftist songwriting. The group members have been persecuted by the Turkish government for many years, they have been arrested and jailed again and again and even tortured. But the band "remains popular and their albums continue to sell well in Turkey and internationally."
Here you can see a picture I took during the great concert the band gave at the Volksstimmefest 2013 in Vienna.
But the latest news I heard about Grup Yorum aren't exactly good: two of their members recently died of the hunger strike they had begun "in protest to the treatment the band received from the Turkish Government":
Helin Bölek and Ibrahim Gökçek
The day after Ibrahim Gökçek's death the myrmidons of the Turkish terrorist regime raided the funeral using teargas, arrested mourners and seized his coffin.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grup_Yorum
www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/08/lonely-death-of-gru...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmfZPfsvRro&list=TL6GrxKCu22w8