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In the trial over the Sivas massacre, which claimed the lives of 35 people in Madımak Hotel in 1993, the court has rejected the requests for hearing the then state officials Köksal, Ağar and Karabilgin “because it will not have an effect on the ruling.”

The ones massacred in Madımak Hotel in Sivas 26 years ago today have been commemorated in a ceremony in Sivas. Şenal Sarıhan, one of the attorneys of Sivas case, has spoken to bianet regarding the commemoration.

Alevite organizations and dissident groups and parties protested the acquittal of some defendants at the infamous Sivas case. Education reform, discriminatory practices and recent threats to Alevites were also targeted.