Artist Ferhat Tunç marked the 30th year of his artistic life with a concert performance at İzmir Fair's Open Theater on Saturday. The concert was also a scene of a presentation by director and deputy Sırrı Süreyya Önder and the display of the "History was not nice to us" documentary written by Fadıl Öztürk, directed by Gökmen Turnalı and dubbed by journalist Can Dündar. The documentary tells about the Turkey of the last 30 years.

"If we are the children of the same God, share the same sky and earth, then why don't we live the same humanity?", asks Tunç, an artist known for his opponent stance and political struggle against injustice in all areas of life, from the murder of journalist Metin Göktepe to Saturday mothers who lost their children in custody, from the cruelty imposed on Kurds and Alevis to the scream of all those oppressed and ignored.

Besides his artistic works, Tunç also continues to give a struggle for a free, democratic and fraternal Turkey, amid dozens of investigations and cases opened against him for the struggle he gives for justice.

Artist Tunç, who comes from Dersim, told the followings about the documentary 'History was not nice to us'; "The people of Dersim have faced undeserved repression for being Kurdish, Alevi and socialist. I myself was denied permission to enter my hometown and forced to live in exile for many years. This repression didn't exist in the last 30 years alone, it is a repression dating back to 60 years, up to the time of Yılmaz Güneys. This is not our history, this is a history they made, and we were just forced to pay the price for this. We are not free yet today, witnessing Kurds demanding their language, Alevis demanding their religion and all circles in the society being terrorized in relation with their demands. Policies of otherizing and discriminating are unfortunately still alive today. This is why the history was not nice to us".

Tunç added that he would continue to give concerts in Kurdistan, Aegean and Black Sea regions as well and give messages of peace and brotherhood.