Moustafa Mohammad
Introduction
Since the founding of the Kurdistan Workers’Party (#PKK# ) by Abdullah Öcalan in 1978,the party has used Kurdish heroic lyrical epics – longform poems about valiant deeds that can be sung – to build popular support,facilitate recruitment and create a positive image of its violent actions. Building on Kurdishtraditional cultural heritage, and using classicmetrics and musical styles, the PKK also innovated on the genre and introduced new methods of creation that included novel forms of party-political control over production and dissemination as well. In order to silence PKK messaging, countries fighting the PKK have sought to repress Kurdish heroic lyrical epics...

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