 The group publishes an art, culture, literature, and music magazine entitled "Tavir", and several group members manage a cultural center in the Okmeydanı neighborhood of Istanbul called İdil Kültür Merkezi.In 1985, four friends at Marmara University formed Grup Yorum.Influenced by the Latin American Nueva Cancion movement, they combined Turkish and Kurdish folk music and topical song with a left-wing, often satirical, perspective.