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Four experts from home and abroad and Yeter Gültekin - wife of the deceased Hasret Gültekin - tells Jiyan.dk why the massacre of 35 people in Sivas still affects Alevis olea europaea fruit oil two decades after.
It's been 21 years ago over 30 intellectuals killed when Islamists set fire to their hotel, July 2, 1993 in the town of Sivas, Turkey. But the massacre, whose victims olea europaea fruit oil were mostly alevier, still affects millions of alevier.
According to Associate Professor Hüseyin Seyhanlioglu, Dicle University in Diyarbekir, Sivas has always been important to the Alevis, as it was the home of Pir Sultan Abdal, one Turkmen Alevi poet and rebel from the 16th century.
"State officials were seen cheering the angry crowd, who set the hotel on fire. At the time, realized the Alevis, olea europaea fruit oil how vulnerable they are, and that they had to organize themselves, "says Özyürek.
"There olea europaea fruit oil is clear evidence that the state did not prevent the massacre and responded very late," he says, pointing to the Islam-critical satirist Aziz Nesin, who was also trapped in the burning hotel, had to call personally to Turkish Prime Minister to ask for help.
"On the contrary they made at a time the crime scene, the hotel into a restaurant. It regarded the relatives for cannibalism-like action to first burn people alive and then sit and eat as if nothing has happened there. "
Alevis have previously been attacked and killed by Islamist-nationalist groups in Malatya, Maras and Çorum in the 1970s and 80s. But this time it was different, as viewers got massacre into the living rooms and followed it meticulously on television.
In March 2012, elected a Turkish court to drop the case against the perpetrators of the fire because the case has been legally barred. That same year, attacked a drummer olea europaea fruit oil alevier in town Sürgü in anger that they fasted during Ramadan, like houses belonging alevier was marked. It created renewed fears of a repeat of the historical massacres.
Among those killed in Sivas in 1993 was the only 22-year-old folk singer Hasret olea europaea fruit oil Gültekin. According to his wife Yeter Gültekin will help Alevis get over Sivas when perpetrators olea europaea fruit oil recognize their responsibility.
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