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Necropolitical Violence and Alevis

The concept of necropolitical violence offers valuable potential for clarifying the meaning and significance of the Alevi community’s status as an oppressed minority and its…

Alevism and Social Trauma

This entry examines how Alevi identity has been shaped through the framework of historical trauma and collective memory, and how it is narrated especially in…

Genocide

Genocide is a concept applied to different event contexts for various reasons and perspectives (legal, moral, analytical, activist). At its centre is the intentional destruction…

Dersim Massacre and Intergenerational Trauma Transmission

This entry looks at the long-term emotional and psychological effects of the Dersim Massacre, which took place in eastern Turkey between 1937 and 1938. Thousands…

Alevi Television Networks: Structural and Representational Limits in Covering Discrimination

Alevi television networks in Turkey emerged in the early 2000s as important platforms for representing the beliefs, practices, and political concerns of Turkey’s Alevi community….

Sivas Massacre (2 July 1993)

The Madımak Massacre, which took place during the Pir Sultan Abdal Cultural Festival in Sivas on 2 July 1993 and claimed the lives of thirty-nine…

Dersim: Genocides (1914-18 & 1937-38)

This entry examines the 1937–38 Dersim massacres as a case of genocide, placing the events within a broader continuum of state-led exterminatory violence in late…

Dersim - Jiar u Diyar (Sacred Geography)

This entry reconceptualises Dersim not as a mere geographic or administrative region but as a sacred-political topography (a cultural geography) central to the Raa Haqi…

Indigeneity and Alevism

This entry examines Alevism as an indigenous identity within Turkey’s ethnically and religiously diverse context. Historically one of the most contested concepts in the region,…

Memory and Dersim

This entry examines Dersim, which occupies a central place in the collective memory of Alevi communities, as both a site of memory and a field…
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