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"Selim the Grim is the Symbol of Alevi Annihilation"

"Selim the Grim is the Symbol of Alevi Annihilation"

Erdoğan Aydın, a historian and researcher on Turkey’s Alevis, told bianet that Ottoman Sultan Selim the Grim marked the symbol of the annihilation of Alevis - a group that constituted half of Anatolian population in the 16th century.

29 May 2013 Nilay Vardar