Physical and Epistemic Violence against Alevis in Turkey
The lecture discusses the physical and epistemic violence experienced by Alevis in the Republic of Turkey. It argues that these forms of violence are interconnected and can only be understood...
Prof. Dr. Markus Dressler
Markus Dressler is Professor for Modern Turkish Studies at Leipzig University. He did his doctorate and habilitation in Religious Studies. Previous fulltime teaching positions in the United States (Hofstra University, Oberlin College), Turkey (Istanbul Technical University), and Germany (Bayreuth and Göttingen Universities). His main research interests and the fields in which he has mainly published are Alevi Studies; religion, politics, and society in the late Ottoman Empire and Turkey; religion & secularism; conceptual history.
Since 2026, he leads the longterm project Alevi Archive: Ethnohistory of Alevi Communities, 16th to 20th Centuries, Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities at Leipzig.
Since 2026, he leads the longterm project Alevi Archive: Ethnohistory of Alevi Communities, 16th to 20th Centuries, Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities at Leipzig.
