Singing Identity - Yerevan Radio Kurdish Broadcast

“Radio, which spreads the idea of 'All Kurds are brothers', has accelerated the process of Kurdishness gaining a political quality again, rather than being a mere anthropological/ethnographic data. The fact that Kendal Nezan published a small selection from the radio's repertoire in the second half of the 1970s with the support of UNESCO and that the entire repertoire was made available in the virtual space in 2010-2020 shows that the 'Yerevan experience' also constitutes a milestone in the history of Kurdish culture. ”

Hamit Bozarslan

Kamran Elend discusses the strong relationship between Kurdish identity and Yerevan Radio in Singing Identity - Yerevan Radio Kurdish Broadcast. It tells how the Kurds living in the Soviet Union, who were a minority, reached the Kurds outside the Soviet Union, especially the Kurds in Turkey, through Yerevan Radio's Kurdish Service, and how the Kurds in Turkey met a world outside their borders but in their own language. While doing this, he uses the interviews he had with people who have memories of Yerevan Radio and reminds once again the value of oral history.

Elend, who does not neglect to discuss "Radio" on its own, adds the Soviet Kurds, the political conditions of the period, and what radio means to people in his narrative.