RUN for and by Turkish and Kurdish people in London to help them solve their problems and promote their cultural, economic, social and democratic rights and to strengthen solidarity among themselves as well as local people, this year’s 30th annual Day-Mer Festival in north London’s Clissold Park was headlined by Turkish psych-folk singer Selda Bagcan.

Also known simply as Selda, her first album came out in 1976 and her mix of folk and psyched-up backing music, as well as powerful lyrics speaking out on working-class struggles, have made her popular but less so, as you’d expect, with those in power.

She’s been jailed three times since the Turkish military coup in 1980. “A pop singer going to jail was unheard of at that time,” she has said. “It was because of my lyrics, not because I was a terrorist. But I did share a cell with terrorists.”