Examples of using Alevis in English and their translations into German
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Are Alevis under threat in Turkey?
Arabs of Adana are mostly Alawi which is often confused with Alevis.
Alevis[not only] in Berlin, Berlin 2003, 37-44.
Anywhere from 20% to 30% or more of the Turkish population may becategorized as Shiite Muslims, which includes Alevis, Alawites, and Twelvers.
Alevis are still not recognised as a Muslim minority.
Often this social“divide” intersects with the Sunni-Alevi cleavage, as the Alevis have increasingly aligned themselves with the political left.
Due to immigration in the last years, there are big communities of Orthodox and Oriental Christians,Muslims, and Alevis.
What's emerging is a state of castes, in which Alevis, Shiites and Christians are above the Sunnis, and in which the government can only feed on corruption and nepotism….
Krisztina Kehl-Bodrogi,"Was du auch suchst, such es in dir selbst!" Aleviten[nicht nur]in Berlin["Whatever you are looking for look for it in yourself!" Alevis[not only] in Berlin], Berlin 2003, 37-44.
Composing up to 25 percent of the population, the Alevis are an unorthodox offshoot of Shi'ite Islam who are seen as advocates of secularism and are disproportionately represented on the left.
In March, Emre told me that he got the information fromsomeone who came to the sports centre and who wrote a report for the state on Alevis, Missionaries and Christianity.
The project focuses on the phenomena of the(re-)construction and innovation of rituals among the Alevis, Yezidi and Nusayri within the scope of transregional and transnational processes of ritual transfer.
While the Alevis remain largely secularist and leftist(with the minority phenomenon of an Alevi communalism) the Sunni protests against the oligarchy take Islamic forms incompatible with Alevitism.
At least 149 journalists are currently in prison,and members of the religious and ethnic minorities such as the Alevis, Yazidis, Christians, Armenians, Assyrians/Aramaeans, and the Greeks are being oppressed.
Equally cautious and skeptical as the Alevis are the Christians in Turkey, for whose rights Western governments, the World Council of Churches, the Pope and human rights activists time and again advocate.
In 1995 a popular uprising erupted in the Istanbul shanty town Gaziosmanpa…oa predominately populated by newly arrived Alevis with wide repercussions in other Alevi neighbourhoods throughout the country.
The unity in struggle of Kurds, Turks, Alevis and other national and religious groups in Turkey and across the region is the only way to achieve genuine democracy, national freedom and above all social liberation.
Antakya has a long tradition of the peaceful coexistence of different religions and ethnic groups:Muslims and Alevis, Jews and Christians as well as Turks, Arabs, Kurds and Armenians live together harmoniously.
The Alevis, who had been protected by the secular Kemalist state, deeply distrust Erdoğan, who further unsettled them by planning to name a new bridge over the Bosphorus after a sixteenth-century sultan who massacred their forebears.
As a politician and personally,he is committed to the freedom of religion of the Christians, the Alevis, and the Yazidis- as well as to the linguistic, political, and cultural equality of the approximately 15 million Kurds and the smaller ethnic groups in Turkey.
The Alevis oppose of a radical interpretation of the Qur'an as propagated by Erdogan's AKP party(and as is imposed on school children in religious education). Their idea of religious practice is quite liberal, containing several elements that are similar to Islam.
In July 2015, the Erdoğan government sent Daesh to commit an attack in Suruç(Turkey),killing both Kurds and Alevis- the local equivalent of the Syrian Alawites- who were expressing their support for the Syrian Arab Republic.
Parliament insisted then, and still insists, that the Turkish Government establish legal frameworks, in accordance with the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights,which will allow non-Muslim religious groups and Alevis to function without unnecessary restrictions.
His announcement generated an intense discussion regarding the position of other religious andnon-religious minorities such as Alevis, Christians, Jews and atheists for a lengthier analysis of religious education in Turkey, you can check the UNHCR report here.
Thus there will not be Turkish institutions supported by NATO on one side and Syrian-backed PKK on the other- but a fragmentation of Turkish society- secular against Islamist;modern against traditionalist; Alevis against Sunnites; Kurds against Turks.
Alevis staged protests and demonstrations in many German cities at the weekend to mark the 20th anniversary of the Sivas massacre, in which Alevi authors, artists and intellectuals, who had assembled in the Madimak Hotel for an Alevi cultural/religious ceremony, became the victims of a violent mob that had formed on HÃ1⁄4kÃ1⁄4met Square after the Friday's prayer.
According to the STP, at least 3,000 Kurds from the region of Afrin in northern Syria(which is mainly inhabited by Kurds,Yazidis, Alevis, and Christians) have been abducted by Turkish troops and allied Syrian jihadists in March 2018.
On the occasion of the beginning of a court hearing regarding a broadcasting ban on the Cologne-based Alevi TV channel"Yol" next Wednesday in Ankara, Turkey, the Society for Threatened Peoples(STP) accuses the Turkish governmentof trying to silence this independent critical voice of the approximately 15 million Alevis.
This content was published on December 14, 2014 11:00 AM Dec 14, 2014- 11:00 At the House of Religions in a diverse Bern neighbourhood, Christians, Muslims, Hindus,Buddhists and Alevis each pray in their own space before coming together to celebrate cultural dialogue.
Finally, we are committing ourselves to joining with our friends in Turkey in ensuring that, in Turkey,the Christian churches and all the various faith communities, from Alevis to Sunnis can, together, flourish as they once did during the history of the Ottoman Empire, and that involves the aspiration that the number of Christians should no longer decline, but begin a renewed increase.