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The Sivas massacre (Sivas Katliamı) or Madımak massacre (Madımak Katliamı) refers to an act of mob arson taking place on July 2, 1993 at the Hotel Madımak (Otel Madımak) in Sivas, Turkey, which resulted in the killing of 37 people, mostly Alevi intellectuals.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 32 relations: Alevism, Arson, Asım Bezirci, Aziz Nesin, Behçet Aysan, Dario Fo, Friday prayer, Hasret Gültekin, Hürriyet Daily News, Human rights in Turkey, Islamism, Istanbul pogrom, Life imprisonment, List of massacres in Turkey, Massacre, Metin Altıok, Muhlis Akarsu, Murder, Nesimi Çimen, Nobel Prize, Pir Sultan Abdal, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Salman Rushdie, Secularity, Sivas, Sunni Islam, The New York Times, The Satanic Verses, Today's Zaman, Turkey, Xenophobia and discrimination in Turkey, Yeni Akit.

  2. 1993 murders in Turkey
  3. 20th-century mass murder in Turkey
  4. Alevi massacres
  5. Arson in Turkey
  6. Attacks on hotels in Asia
  7. History of Sivas
  8. July 1993 crimes
  9. July 1993 events in Asia
  10. Mass murder in 1993
  11. Massacres in 1993
  12. Massacres in Turkey
  13. Persecution of intellectuals

Alevism

Alevism (Alevilik;; Ələvilik) is a heterodox and syncretic Islamic tradition, whose adherents follow the mystical Islamic teachings of Haji Bektash Veli, who supposedly taught the teachings of the Twelve Imams, whilst incorporating some traditions from Tengrism.

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Arson

Arson is the act of willfully and deliberately setting fire to or charring property.

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Asım Bezirci

Asım Bezirci (Erzincan, 1927 – Sivas, 2 July 1993) was a Turkish critic, writer and poet.

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Aziz Nesin

Aziz Nesin (born Mehmet Nusret, 20 December 1915 – 6 July 1995) was a Turkish writer, humorist and the author of more than 100 books.

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Behçet Aysan

Behçet Aysan (1949 – 2 July 1993) was a Turkish physician and poet.

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Dario Fo

Dario Luigi Angelo Fo (24 March 1926 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Friday prayer

In Islam, Friday prayer, or Congregational prayer (translit) is a community prayer service held once a week on Fridays.

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Hasret Gültekin

Hasret Şükrü Gültekin (1 May 1971–2 July 1993) was a Turkish musician and poet.

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Hürriyet Daily News

The Hürriyet Daily News, formerly Hürriyet Daily News and Economic Review and Turkish Daily News, is the oldest current English-language daily in Turkey, founded in 1961.

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Human rights in Turkey

Human rights in Turkey are protected by a variety of international law treaties, which take precedence over domestic legislation, according to Article 90 of the 1982 Constitution.

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Islamism

Islamism (also often called political Islam) refers to a broad set of religious and political ideological movements.

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Istanbul pogrom

The Istanbul pogrom, also known as the Istanbul riots, were a series of state-sponsored anti-Greek mob attacks directed primarily at Istanbul's Greek minority on 6–7 September 1955. Sivas massacre and Istanbul pogrom are 20th-century mass murder in Turkey and massacres in Turkey.

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Life imprisonment

Life imprisonment is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted criminals are to remain in prison for the rest of their natural lives (or until pardoned, paroled, or commuted to a fixed term).

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List of massacres in Turkey

The following is a list of massacres that occurred in Anatolia (numbers may be approximate, as estimates vary greatly). Sivas massacre and list of massacres in Turkey are massacres in Turkey.

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Massacre

A massacre is an event of killing people who are not engaged in hostilities or are defenseless.

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Metin Altıok

Metin Altıok (March 14, 1941 – July 9, 1993) was a Turkish poet of Alevi faith, who - together with 34 other people, mostly Alevi intellectuals - fell victim to the 1993 Sivas massacre.

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Muhlis Akarsu

Muhlis Akarsu (20 February 1948 – 2 July 1993) was a Turkish folk singer and Bağlama player.

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Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction.

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Nesimi Çimen

Nesimi Çimen (1931 – 2 July 1993) was a Turkish folk singer and poet.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) are five separate prizes awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, as established by the 1895 will of Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the year before he died.

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Pir Sultan Abdal

Pir Sultan Abdal (born Haydar) is an important religious figure in Alevism of Turkmen origin, who is thought to have been born in the village of Banaz in present-day Sivas Province, Turkey.

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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician who is the 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014.

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Salman Rushdie

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist.

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Secularity

Secularity, also the secular or secularness (from Latin saeculum, "worldly" or "of a generation"), is the state of being unrelated or neutral in regards to religion.

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Sivas

Sivas (Latin and Greek: Sebastia, Sebastea, Σεβάστεια, Σεβαστή) is a city in central Turkey.

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Sunni Islam

Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Satanic Verses

The Satanic Verses is the fourth novel of the British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie.

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Today's Zaman

Today's Zaman (Zaman is Turkish for 'time' or 'age') was an English-language daily newspaper based in Turkey.

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Turkey

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.

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Xenophobia and discrimination in Turkey

In Turkey, xenophobia and discrimination are present in its society and throughout its history, including ethnic discrimination, religious discrimination and institutional racism against non-Muslim and non-Sunni minorities.

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Yeni Akit

Yeni Akit (literally "New Agreement") is an Islamist Turkish daily newspaper.

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See also

1993 murders in Turkey

20th-century mass murder in Turkey

Alevi massacres

Arson in Turkey

Attacks on hotels in Asia

History of Sivas

July 1993 crimes

July 1993 events in Asia

Mass murder in 1993

Massacres in 1993

Massacres in Turkey

Persecution of intellectuals

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sivas_massacre

Also known as 1993 Sivas massacre, Denial of Sivas massacre, Madimak Hotel, Madimak massacre, Otel Madimak, Otel Madımak, Sivas incident, Sivas incidents, Sivas massacre denial.