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	Tunceli, Turkey
		The main victims, however, were the Zaza ethnic minority, known throughout the land as "devil worshippers" - Alevites who had resided in the Tunceli region in large numbers since at least the 16th century.
		The Alevites more relaxed stance towards the Islamic taboos such as women wearing the veil, fasting and ceremonial rites encouraged the dissemination of wild rumors and untruths.
		It was claimed the Alevites took part in orgies, worshipped the devil and had breath smelling like animals.
	www.planetware.com /turkey/tunceli-tr-tu-tu.htm (605 words)

	café babel, European current affairs magazine : comment and analysis from Europe
		Alevite prayer houses are forbidden as is the practice of hanging signs carrying the word ``Alevi`` (disciple of Ali).
		The Alevites were born from the fusion of Christian, Gnostic and Shiite elements.
		The Alevites reject the Sharia (Islamic law) because they regard the Koran as not a book of law but notes of revelations, which must be read critically.
	www.cafebabel.com /EN/printversion.asp?T=T&Id=2419 (711 words)

	Eurozine - Articles
		The only exceptions were the occasional rebellions of the Alevites, who were at the bottom of the hierarchy of communities.
		Alevites had a different stance to non-Muslims; though they appeared to share the religion of the state, Islam, they lived by a completely different code of culture.
		Alevites had always been considered a bigger threat to the state than non-Muslims, since they could claim power based on their religion.
	www.eurozine.com /articles/2006-01-18-mahcupyan-en.html (2316 words)

	Alevi
		Adherents of Alevi are called Alevites and number between 20% and 30% of the Turkish population, i.e.
		Alevites are closely connected to the Bektashi order, and revere the Haci Bektas Veli.
		Alevis can be ethnic Turks, Kurds or Zaza, with a particular concentration in mid-Eastern Turkey in a belt from Sivas in the West to Muş; in the East.
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/a/al/alevi.html (386 words)

	- Turkish Daily News May 28, 2004
		Alevites, whose identities have been denied in Turkey, are advantageous in one respect.
		This means, the laws forbid the organization of religious communities with their clear names and purposes under the name of an association or foundation.
		Alevites are partially breaking this law, but it is a limited implementation.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=36593 (2802 words)

	People’s Council founded in Gazi and Zubeyde-Hanim
		Appeals were drafted to unite the old, the young, the Kurds, Turks, Alevite and Sunni under one roof.
		A imam of the mosque and a Dede of the Alevites spoke the prayers.
		The prayers of the two religious representatives (Sunni and Alevite) was an expression of unity and solidarity between the people in Gazi, gathered under the roof of the People’s Council.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/51/292.html (2698 words)

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		In the years of the big migration from Anatolia in which poor peasants escaped to the cities in order to survive, Gazi steadily grew.
		There were calls for the old, young, Kurds, Turks, Alevites and Sunni to organise under one roof.
		The people who hoped for justice were shot by the police, many were killed and hundreds of them were wounded, arrested and tortured.
	www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/97mid/Turkey:_People's_Councils__2 (2746 words)

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		We had to prevent to consequences, the massacres by fascism, the tactics of intimidation and provocations between the Sunni and Alevites etc., the provocations on a religious and ethnic level.
		Especially the Alevites war harshly attacked and presented as communists, because this made it easier to get the Sunni on a contra-revolutionary line.
		The failing practice and policy of the left, solely directed at the Alevite religious creed, facilitated the job of the oligarchy to get the Sunni on a line which was loyal to the state.
	www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/97rad/Turkey-DHKP-C_The_History_of_our_party_III (4288 words)

	Hizb ut Tahrir in UK announces "Islam is coming back" - HUT in Germany appeals government ban: Hizb ut Tahrir and the ...
		It has about 70 million inhabitants, there are 3 mainstreams of religious thought in Turkey: the secularistic or kemalistic outlook dominating life in the cities; the sunnite viewpoint mainly dominating the villages of Anatolia, it is partially fundamentalistic; and the Alevite point of view.
		Alevites are muslims inspired by an amalgamated teaching which contains Shiite material, pre-islamic and nomadic customs.
		The Alevites are a minority (25 percent), which is called azinlik.
	www.militantislammonitor.org /article/id/326 (8457 words)

	Yeziden (Alevites), Yeziden, Yeziden
		Another minority group live on the Tur Abdin.
		The Yeziden (or Alevites) are regarded with mistrust by the Turks because of their liberal interpretation of the Koran and their refusal to pray in mosques.
		None of the Yeziden villages has a mosque and the Turks regard them as devil-worshippers.
	www.planetware.com /mardin/yeziden-alevites-tr-ma-may.htm (91 words)

	Human_rights_in_Turkey - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		For example, the Alevis pray in meeting houses but the government funds only the building of mosques.
		Attempts to expand the Government religious fund to Alevites are made.
		Alevites are not officially recognized as a different muslim sect, but are considered Sunni Muslims as well.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Human_rights_in_Turkey (1815 words)

	Kurds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Alevites are in the majority in the northern and western areas of Turkish Kurdistan and in the Chorasan region of Iran.
		In Iran and Irak there exist other religious groups such as Shiite Kurds (Feyli) and the Ehlihak ("the people of God"), who are closely related with the Alevites.
		In the various parts of Kurdistan, especially in the region where the borders of Turkey, Iran, and Irak meet and in Armenia, there are Kurdish Yezidi communities.
	www.homepagez.com /bamerdiyo/Kurds.htm (4618 words)

	RELIGION
		The better educated and younger ratars regard the Turks as fanatics and themselves as moderates - which they believe is an advantage.
		Respondents distinguish the two communities by the Islam-based segregation of women in the case of the Turks and the absence of such discrimination among the Tatars, as well as by the attitude to the Christians and the Alevites.
		The Tatars are tolerant towards the Alevites (Shi’ites) while the Turks (who are Sunnite too) are not - and vice versa.
	members.fortunecity.com /timurberk/kirim/ttrbg/religion.html (302 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This fact is not the result of planned religious expansion of Islam but rather the consequence of economically and politically conditioned movements of migration.
		Besides the Sunnites we have the Alevites, who constitute up to 30% of the ethnically Turkish Muslims — with their tradition shaped by Shiite as well as shamanist and pre-Anatolian Christian elements.
		Until recently the “Office for Religious Affairs” in Ankara (Diyanet Ishleri Bakanligi) had simply ignored them and treated their tradition as just a form of Anatolian folklore.
	www.ikstudiecenter.dk /Artikler/christiantroll-2-03.htm (3191 words)

	From empire to republic — problems of transition, continuity and change
		The Kurdish war in itself of course made the question “Who is a Turk?” highly explosive, but apart from that, the conflict acted as a catalyst, dramatically increasing ethnic awareness among minority communities, such as the Çerkes,Laz and Türkmen.
		The stridency of the radical Sunni Islamic movements and the Kurdish nationalist struggle both influenced Turkey’s largest religious minority, that of the Alevites.
		In the nineties, they too started to emphasize their sub-national identity, be it religious or cultural (many Alevites claiming to be the “real” or “original” Turks).
	www.let.leidenuniv.nl /tcimo/tulp/Research/Fromtorep.htm (8347 words)

	Cyprus PIO: Turkish Cypriot Press and Other Media, 98-05-25 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		KIBRIS (25.5.98) reports that Alevites living in the occupied area have celebrated their ``Ashure Day'', the day when the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed, Husseyin, and his followers were killed in Kerbela.
		The Alevite community in the occupied area was created by the illegal settlers from Turkey after the 1974 invasion.
		According to KIBRIS (24.5.98) there was a strong explosion last night under a van in the occupied port city of Famagusta, during which the driver of the van was seriously injured.
	www.hri.org /cgi-bin/brief?/news/cyprus/tcpr/1998/98-05-25.tcpr.html (2500 words)

	LISTEN KEMALIST! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		They, whether Sunnites or Alevits ['Alevits': partisans of the Prophet Ali-trans.], were the focul points of thought of the peaceful surroundings of pantheism.
		They were the creators of folk Islam, which allowed the Anatolian people to live in cultural richness by making ineffective the cruel attitude of the 'ulema'.
		The Islamists who burnt the Alevites alive [including poets, writers, journalists, and many others-trans.] in Sivas [an Anatolian city where the Islamists are organized-trans.] dared to do this because they knew that they would trust in the Kemalist State.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/turkey/turkey_kemalist.html (667 words)

	Bloomsbury.com - Research centre
		They have further subdivided into several groups, one of which is led by the Aga Khan.
		There is also a group of Fivers known as Zaidis, and a number of other sects such as the Alevites and 'Alawis, Babis, Yazidis and Druzes, but these have moved outside Islam proper.
		Shi'ism, in its varying forms, represents about 10% of the Muslim world population.
	www.bloomsbury.com /ARC/detail.asp?EntryID=102885&bid=2 (305 words)

	All Empires History Forum: Where can I get resources about Khorasani Turks? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On the other hand Turkoman Alevits can be considered as Shia.
		That's why there is a huge difference between Shia and Anatolian Alevites shaped during time.
		Alavism first appeared as a branch of shi'ism and sufism but as time passed,they formed a distintive style of religion /sect.
	www.allempires.com /forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3551&PN=1 (2203 words)

	Cyprus PIO: Turkish Cypriot Press and Other Media, 99-05-17
		KIBRIS (17.5.99) reports that Alevites living in the occupied area have celebrated the ``Asure Day''.
		The celebrations were organised by ``The Association for Promoting and Research of the Culture of Haci Bektash - i Veli''.
		The guest of honour was former Republican People´s Party deputy Arif Sag who is an Alevite.
	www.hri.org /cgi-bin/brief?/news/cyprus/tcpr/1999/99-05-17.tcpr.html (2173 words)

	Pergamum: Four Nations' Memories
		The road passes a number of villages, whose inhabitants, our driver Ali informed us, are dedicated to the cultivation of pine nuts and wine production.
		Most belong to the Alevite sect - so did he.
		What struck us immediately in the Alevite villages was the absence of a mosque: Alevites conduct religious services in shrines called cem-evi, where the men and women pray and dance together.
	www.helleniccomserve.com /pergamum.html (2412 words)

	A report about fascism in Turkey and the MHP (Grey Wolves). (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The government tried to convince the international opinion that it had been a religious conflict.
		However, during the uprising Alevites and Sunnites fought side by side against the armed forces of the state.
		The way this action was executed: At first a taxi-driver is kidnapped, his throat is cut and he is thrown in the back of his own car which is then used in a vile attack where the murderers use machineguns against unsuspecting citizens.
	users.westnet.gr /~cgian/turkish_fascism.htm (1993 words)

	Dhimmi Watch: Protestant Proselytizers Eye 10% of Turks: Report
		So, if ten percent of the Turks would be Christian in 2020, I do not have much problems with that, though I rather would see they become atheist.
		Let us also not forget there are many Alevites in Turkey as well; religious people who are know for their liberal thoughts.
		Considering that Turkey’s sorry record of Christian genocide and persecution in the last century and before was only surpassed by the Nazi genocide and persecution of the Jews, the proselytizers.are optimistic to think they will get a free reign to convert Turks.
	www.jihadwatch.org /dhimmiwatch/archives/004542.php (921 words)

	T.C. Kultur Bakanligi / Ministry of Culture, Republic of Turkey
		In this circular l9th century structure there is a single marble column in the centre that bears the weight of the twelve slender ribs on which the dome, which is itself 'divided into twelve sections, rests.
		Greatly revered by the Alevites and followers of Hacı Bektaş Veli - the Bektaşi order.) The same motif can be seen in the Gözcü Baba Mezar Sofası, an area of level ground surrounding the grave of Gözcü Baba on a hilltop far from Göztepe.
		Another important centre of a religious order is the Kadıriler Dervish Convent, which stands on the high ground above Tophane and overlooks the sea.
	www.discoverturkey.com /english/yeni/istanbul/dervish.html (1585 words)

	Freemuse: Turkey: New sound of Kurdish music after ban was lifted
		The heavy blues from the Kurdish mountains thus take on a certain cosmopolitan flair when she performs them.
		Aynur Dogan was born in the south-east corner of the country in the Kurdish-influenced region of Tunceli, where she grew up with the traditional music, the myths and the poetry of the Alevites – a religious minority which is still very present in everyday life there.
		In the wake of the civil war which escalated in the 1990’s, whole villages were forced to move to the western side of Turkey.
	www.freemuse.org /sw12895.asp (783 words)

	Kurdistan Holds the World: Help Them Choose : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		About 75% of Kurds are Sunni Moslems and 15% are Alevite Moslems.
		In Iran and Irak there exist Shiite Kurds (Feyli) and the Ehlihak ("the people of God"), who are related to the Alevites.
		In the region where the borders of Turkey, Iran, and Irak meet and in Armenia, there are Kurdish Yezidi communities.
	sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1590722 (6854 words)

	A Manual for Germany \| A Manual for Germany: Religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Muslims make up the next largest group with around 3 million members.
		Shiites and Alevites form a much smaller group.
		Jews make up the third largest religious community in Germany.
	www.handbuch-deutschland.de /book/en/002_005_print.html (135 words)

	ZAMAN DAILY NEWSPAPER (2006033029967)
		Thus, we went through a long process in which religious and secular communities created their own worlds and detached sociologically from one another.
		We can also add the pressure of the state as a secular actor on Muslims, the Sunni community becoming introverted, afraid of the state and seeking guidance; finally, the exclusion of the Alevites and every community scared of the other… Today, Turkey is far from becoming understanding and self-criticizing.
		It is still believed that being modern means making the other resemble it or to trying to assimilate it.
	www.zaman.com /?bl=columnists&trh=20060330&hn=29967 (639 words)

	anmeldung
		Secondly, there is a similar story amongst the Alevi Kurds: Imam Husseyn was crying 7,000 years because of the sins of the people and his tears extinguzished the Fire of Hell.
		It shows that this story has an ancient source, maybe even the Kurdish sources and the Kurdish Alevites had only modified it (Imam Hussey ibn Ali instead of Tausi Melek).
		As you know there was another Church Father St. Clement of Alexandria who had similar ideas about Satan.
	www.pen-kurd.org /englizi/Espeja/comments-of-dr-zorab.html (903 words)

	anmeldung
		The people of Kurdistan move and work together with the rest of the world for the sake of co-operation and progress.
		The peoples themselves — whether Kurds or Turks, Persians or Arabs, Muslims or Christians, Jews or Yezidi, Sunnis or Shi’as, Alevites or Assyrians — are eager to see a self-confident a democratically oriented Kurdistan.
		Let me share with you how the Kurds view all this, how they try to support, protect and encourage non-Kurds living in the Kurdish homeland.
	www.pen-kurd.org /Diyarbakir-seminar/abdurehman-nakshbandy-minority-rights.html (1120 words)

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