Music has shaped the social engineering of the entire Kurdish community, be it in Turkey and Syria to the swathes of Rojava in northern Syria.
Civilian Kurds bear the brunt of Turkey's indiscriminate campaign against the PKK. Only learning from history can finally end the vicious cycle of conflict and bring about a new dawn of peace.
Beset by domestic and regional crises, Turkey has adopted a defensive posture where dialogue would be preferable.
