The Sivas Massacre

On July, 1993 one of the greatest massacres in Turkey's recent history occurred in Sivas. During Alevi celebrations, a group of intellectuals and artists who stay at Madimak Hotel was surrounded by 15000 religious fanatics. The main target of the crowd was Aziz Nesin (a famous and prolific author, an atheist and Turkish translator of The Satanic Verses). The Islamic radicals set fire to the hotel and 37 people died burning or suffocating. This documentary tells minute by minute how tension escalated right before the massacre and these horrific events occurred after that.

Read about the aftermath:
http://wwww.bianet.org/english/religion/115655-dont-forget-sivas
http://wwww.bianet.org/english/minorities/107958-turkey-must-face-the-sivas-massacre

Also watch: The Satanic Verses Affair

P S English and German subtitles provided by AlsanaAziz and thanks to JB for the cover.


Complete name : The Sivas Massacre.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
File size : 116 MiB
Duration : 42mn 16s
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Width : 320 pixels
Height : 240 pixels
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Audio Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Language : Turkish
Subtitles : English, German


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