HUGE CROWD ATTENDS FINAL CONCERT OF DERSIM MUNZUR FESTIVAL
August 5, 2014
The 14th Munzur Nature Festival, which continued for 4 days in Dersim,
ended yesterday with a concert.
A slide show telling the life of Sakine Cansýz (Sara) received long
applause.
Tens of thousands of people attended the final concert of the Munzur
Nature Festival.
The closing speeches at the festival were made by the co-mayor of
the Dersim Municipality, Nurhayat Altýn, and deputy mayor Huseyin Tunc.
Warmly thanking guests and the people of Dersim who attended the
festival, Nurhayat Altýn wished that the festival would bring peace
and freedom to all people.
The president of the organising committee of the festival and deputy
mayor Huseyin Tunc thanked the people who had made efforts for the
festival and stated that they would establish people’s assemblies
to decide on the festival next year. He said that: “I thank all the
people all over the world whose heart is beating with the people
of Dersim. We are protecting our dams and our culture, beliefs and
language with this festival. At our 14th Nature and Culture Festival,
we said ‘Dersim, we said remove the obstacles in front of our culture
and language, and we organised a lot of seminars and conferences.”
Greeting the resistance of Rojava and Sinjar with the power of
the Dersim Festival, Huseyin Tunc said: “we are sincerely with the
people who are resisting in Sinjar and Rojava. We are on the side of
the YPG who are standing against the ISIS gangs. We also thank our
people who are opposing off shoot organisations of ISIS. In addition,
the people in Dersim should vote for people’s presidential candidate
Selahattin Demirtaþ.”
After the speeches, a slide show telling the life of Sakine Cansýz,
who was killed in Paris with her comrades, and her part in the Kurdish
liberation struggle was presented.
The speeches of Cansýz in the slide show were frequently interrupted by
the audience shouting slogans such as ‘revenge’, ‘martyrs are immortal’
and ‘the PKK is the people, the people are here’.
The Rastak group from Iran performed at the concert with songs in
Kurdish, Persian and in Azeri. After that, Deniz Deman, Hivron and
Grup Munzur performed. Finally, Metin & Kemal Kahraman performed.
Kemal Kahraman, who had been in exile for 22 years, received a
particularly warm welcome.