On Tuesday, a fifteen-year-old Turkish Alevi named Berkin Elvan died, sparking the country’s largest anti-government protests since last summer, when a sit-in to save Istanbul’s Gezi Park grew ...

He has publicly embraced his Alevi faith: A heterodox and modernist current of Islam with which a fifth of the Turkish population identifies. Elise Massicard, a political scientist, and author of ...

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"Throughout the history of the Ottoman Empire we suffered from repression and massacres," says Kamil Aykanat, who heads the Okmeydani Alevi community in Istanbul. "When the new Turkish republic ...

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"I personally cannot wear my Alevi outfit and walk freely ... the joint educational program run by the Turkish education ministry and the ministry of youth and sports and directorate religious ...

The Alevi community in Australia on Tuesday, July 2, marked the 26th anniversary of the murder of 33 Alevis, including poets and musicians, in an arson attack by a fundamentalist mob in the ...

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