Koma Amed held a historic reunion concert on October 25, 2025, in Diyarbakır (Amed)

Thanks to the new peace process.

Koma Amed is a pioneering Kurdish music band formed in 1988 in Ankara by medical students from Ankara and Hacettepe universities. Their distinctive style mixes Kurdish folk music with contemporary influences, and they became emblematic of cultural resistance during a period when the Kurdish language and music were heavily suppressed in Turkey. The band’s early albums, like Kulîlka Azadî (1990) and Dergûş (1997), are seen as milestones in Kurdish music, influencing a generation and selling hundreds of thousands of copies despite bans and censorship.nykcc+4​

Koma Amed recently held a historic reunion concert on October 25, 2025, in Diyarbakır (Amed), their first major performance in Turkey in three decades after years of exile and bans. The concert attracted tens of thousands of attendees, many describing emotional moments as the band performed songs that had become anthems of Kurdish cultural and political identity. The crowd included people from several generations, with some attendees expressing how they grew up listening to the band and had waited decades for such an event.rudaw+3​

Eşsiz bir konserdi. Koma Amed sadece bir konser vermedi. Kendisiyle birlikte, bir halkın barış ve özgürlük umudunu da getirdi. Yitirdiklerimizin anısını ve özlemini de getirdi.
Ve Koma Amed’e bu kadar kalabalıkla ve coşkuyla sahip çıkan bu halkın önünde sevgiyle saygıyla… pic.twitter.com/GtJBC9o81x

— Serra Bucak (@serrabucak) October 26, 2025

Before the concert, a message from Selahattin Demirtaş, former HDP co-chair, was read aloud, and local officials including the Diyarbakır co-mayors joined in traditional Kurdish dancing (halay). The event was widely seen as a celebration of Kurdish music and a symbolic act of cultural resilience after long periods marked by censorship and political pressure. The concert not only marked the band’s return to the stage, but also the re-connection of the Kurdish community with a touchstone of their modern cultural legacy.bianet+4​