section_path: Organization/Cultural branch
section_name: Cultural branch
paragraph_text: Cultural branch
  
  In 1983, the Association of Artists (Hunerkom) was established in Germany under the lead of the music group Koma Berxwedan. Its activities spread over Kurdish community centers in France, Germany and the Netherlands. In 1994 the Hunerkom was renamed into the 'Kurdish Academy of Culture and Arts'. Koma Berxwedans songs, which often were about the PKK resistance, were forbidden in Turkey and had to be smuggled over the border.