Sivas, Turkey

Sivas is the provincial capital of Sivas Province in Turkey. According to the 2000 Turkish census, its population was 251,776. The Sivas Congress, which laid the foundations of the modern Turkish Republic, was held in this city on 4 September, 1919. On 2 July, 1993, a hotel with mostly left-wing Alevis intellectuals and artists attending an Alevi cultural conference was burnt down by Sunni locals. The crowd was enraged by the presence of Aziz Nesin, the Turkish translator of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses. 36 Alevis and a Dutch anthropologist were killed in the fire.

 

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