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TOPSHOT - Turkish activists and opposition members gather with pictures of victims killed in Madimak Otel 25 years ago on July 2, 2018 in Sivas. Turkish opposition leaders on June 2 marked a quarter of a century since the massacre of 33 intellectuals largely from the Alevi minority in a mob attack on a hotel, one of the most shocking crimes in Turkey's modern history. The 33 writers and artists, along with 2 hotel staff, were killed on July 2, 1993 when an angry mob set fire to the Madimak hotel in the Anatolian city of Sivas where they had been holding a conference. They Islamist protesters had been angered by the presence at the conference of the writer Aziz Nesin who had questioned the authenticity of the Koran and also sought to publish parts of Salman Rushdie's controversial novel "The Satanic Verses". The massacre has become a major cause for Turkey's community of Alevis who had adhere to what is usually seen as an offshoot of Shia Islam and make up the biggest religious minority in the mainly Sunni country. / AFP PHOTO / DHA / HUSNU UMIT AVCI / Turkey OUT
2018-07-02
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