Grup Yorum (in Memory of Helin Bölek and Ibrahim Gökçek)
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.
I took this picture during the great concert the band gave at the Volksstimmefest 2013 in Vienna. A short time before Turkish Police had burst Grup Yorum vocalist Selma Altın's ears "by hitting on both of her ears with their hands" and had broken violinist Dilan Balcı's fingers.
bianet.org/english/print/140960-police-tortures-left-wing...
Grup Yorum members Helin Bölek and Ibrahim Gökçek recently died of the hunger strike they had begun "in protest to the treatment the band received from the Turkish Government". 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...
Grup Yorum (in Memory of Helin Bölek and Ibrahim Gökçek)
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.
I took this picture during the great concert the band gave at the Volksstimmefest 2013 in Vienna. A short time before Turkish Police had burst Grup Yorum vocalist Selma Altın's ears "by hitting on both of her ears with their hands" and had broken violinist Dilan Balcı's fingers.
bianet.org/english/print/140960-police-tortures-left-wing...
Grup Yorum members Helin Bölek and Ibrahim Gökçek recently died of the hunger strike they had begun "in protest to the treatment the band received from the Turkish Government". 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...