BY ALEV DUDEK -- Turkey's main religious group outside of Sunni Islam is the Alevi, making up 15-25% of the population and having long-lasting struggles with equal rights.

In 1937 and 1938, Alevi-Kurds in Dersim province faced large-scale massacres, prompting among other things, a name change to Tunceli. In 1978, over a hundred Alevis in Kahramanmaras died at the ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's rival in next month's election has confronted a Turkish political taboo by speaking out about being an Alevi -- a group targeted by decades of discrimination and ...

Ali Erdem leads his Alevi community each week in a ceremony filled with symbolic ritual, music and dance, performing in a place of worship that has been thrust into political debate ahead of ...

In Kobani, Syria, people protested the massacres of Alevi on the Syrian coast, coinciding with Turkish bombings of the Tishrin Dam and Qerqozaq bridge. This violence continued despite a recent ...

A political taboo has been broken in the prelude to the May presidential elections in Turkey. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's chief rival, has spoken out about being an Alevi ...

Alevi organizations, including the Alevi Bektaşi Federation (ABF), Alevi Associations Federation (ADFE), and Pir Sultan Abdal Cultural Associations (PSKAD), protested the detention of PSKAD Chair Cuma ...

The Alevi question in Turkey is not only about a manifestation of the demands for religious freedoms and pluralism but also an issue of citizenship at least for the last three decades. This article ...

Moshe Morad visits Istanbul in search of traditional music. With a live session from gypsy clarinettist Selim Sesler, troubador songs and a recording of and Alevi ceremony. Show more Istanbul is a ...

“Kilicdaroglu, you can be an Alevi. I respect you,” Erdogan said in 2014. Kilicdaroglu has never hidden his Alevi identity but has rarely talked about it in detail.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's rival in next month's election has confronted a Turkish political taboo by speaking out about being an Alevi -- a group targeted by decades of discrimination and ...