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 ...

“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.

Responding to these statements at a rally, Erdoğan said, "This nation's essence is strong, and on May 14, this nation will give you the necessary lesson with Allah's permission. We do not have a Sunni ...

Ali Balkız, the president of the Alevi Bektashi Federation (ABF), has told bianet that Alevi organisations have for the first time agreed on five issues. At the Alevi workshop organised by the ...

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 a video that has gone viral, Kilicdaroglu announced he was an Alevi, a member of Turkey's main religious minority. Alevis are Muslims but are considered heretics by some Sunni hardliners.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...