Opera and the Kurdish Question – a weekly news review

Attempts by the new leader of the CHP to build bridges with Kurdish voters demonstrate the huge gulf still to be crossed by Turkish politics; while recent news provides many examples of the deliberate erosion of Kurdish lives and culture by the Turkish state. This week’s review also looks at the role of Hüda Par, attacks on North and East Syria, Germany’s thirty-year ban on the PKK, and the campaign for Öcalan’s freedom.