HENRY FOWLER, assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), reports on Day 2 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
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Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
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Suna Alan: I am a Kurdish/Alevi singer based in London. I was born in the mountainous province of Cewlik (Bingol), an ancient Kurdish and Armenian province in Northern Kurdistan (officially Turkey). I’m the fifth of the seven siblings. When I was two years old, the family left the village due to the conflict and settled in Izmir on Turkey’s west coast.
Moving to Izmir in my early childhood meant that much of my formative years were spent surrounded by traditional Kurdish dengbej (“bard”) music and Kurdish-Alevi laments within a rich cosmopolitan cultural environment.
Steve Sweeney: How and when did you start singing? Is it something that runs in the family?
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