Hosted by the Metropolitan Municipality and Kayapınar Municipality, Koma Amed’s concert at the Newroz Area, taking the stage in Diyarbakır after 30 years, began with great enthusiasm.
Hosted by the Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality Department of Culture and Social Affairs and Kayapınar Municipality, Koma Amed’s concert held at the Newroz Area has begun. The group, which secured an important place in the cultural and artistic memory of the Kurds with their original interpretation of Kurdish music in the 1990s, is giving a spirited concert in Diyarbakır after 30 years with the participation of hundreds of thousands of people.
The concert was attended by Metropolitan Municipality Co-Mayors Serra Bucak and Doğan Hatun, district municipality co-mayors, members of parliament, artists, and hundreds of thousands of music lovers from within the country and abroad.
Before the concert, video messages from the artist Şivan Perwer, Xelil Xemgin and Kurdish musicians, as well as messages sent by former Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality Co-Mayor Adnan Selçuk Mızraklı—currently imprisoned in Edirne F-Type Prison—and former HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş were shown on the screen.
Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality Co-Mayors Serra Bucak and Doğan Hatun, together with Kayapınar Municipality Co-Mayors Berivan Gülşen Sincar and Cengiz Dündar, took to the stage and greeted the public.
Co-Mayor Bucak: May the concert be an occasion for peace and freedom
The concert programme began amid the applause and ululations of hundreds of thousands of citizens, with a greeting from Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality Co-Mayor Serra Bucak. Greeting participants who had come from within the country and abroad, Co-Mayor Bucak said: “Welcome; you are most welcome and honoured among us. Today our guest is Koma Amed—at home, on its own soil after 30 years. May your arrival be blessed; for our honourable people this longing has come to an end at the Newroz Area. We want the longing of all the Kurdish people, the longing of mothers, to come to an end; may it serve peace, unity and democracy. May this concert serve the Kurdish people’s desire for peace and freedom. To the young people, women and our people—thank you for coming. We thank the staff of Kayapınar Municipality and the Metropolitan Municipality, and the Sanatça organisation, for this spirited concert and their efforts. We are very excited; I can see you are eager too—hopefully this evening will be a fine and spirited concert. I embrace you with respect and affection. Long live Amed.”
Following the speeches, the band members greeted the hundreds of thousands attending the concert in Kurmanji and Zazaki.
The concert, which began with Koma Amed’s song “Amediyê”, is continuing.
