Grup Munzur is a Turkish band known for their
protest
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songwriting
A songwriter is a person who creates musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music genre and film scoring. ...
and some of the group members were arrested and tried for their artistic activities. Grup Munzur was founded in 1992 in
Ä°zmir
Ä°zmir is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara. It is on the Aegean Sea, Aegean coast of Anatolia, and is the capital of Ä°zmir Province. In 2024, the city of Ä°zmir had ...
. Grup Munzur has yearly performed at ''Munzur Doğa ve Kültür Festivali'' in
Tunceli Province
Tunceli Province (), formerly Dersim Province (; ; ), is a province in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. Its central city is Tunceli. The province has a Kurdish majority. Moreover, it is the only province in Turkey with an Alevi majority. ...
. Musicians of Grup Munzur are known of their sympathy to the
maoist movement.
Discography
; Albums
Grup Munzur albumler
grupmunzur.com
# 1993 - ''Babanın Türküsü''
# 1995 - ''Hep Birlikte''
# 1997 - ''TutuÅŸturun Geceleri''
# 2000 - ''Beklenen Uzak DeÄŸil''
# 2003 - ''Bahara Çağrı''
# 2008 - ''Kızıl Anka''
# 2010 - ''Haykırış''
# 2016 - ''Hava Kurşun Gibi Ağır''
See also
* Bandista
* Grup Yorum
Grup Yorum is a band from Turkey known for their political songwriting. Grup Yorum (''yorum'' means 'rendition' of a piece of art or music, 'interpretation' or 'commentary' in Turkish) has released twenty-three albums and one film since 1985. So ...
References
External links
*
Grup Munzur
official website
Turkish folk rock groups
Culture in Ä°zmir
Musical groups established in 1985
Maoism in Turkey
Turkish political music groups
1985 establishments in Turkey
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