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Alevi association declared that they would hold a demonstration on February 8 to protest the compulsory religion classes starting from first grade as well as not send their children to school on the first week of the new semester in February 2015.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs’s rejection of paying electricity bills of a cemevi is a “violation of right to religion” and “discrimination”.

Turkey's Alawites do not face the same threats as the people of Syria and Iraq. Despite the porous nature of Turkey's southern border, it is not about to collapse. But the Alawites of Hatay feel vulnerable.

In Turkey, Muslim groups have used the “human rights” framework to protect their religious practices, such as wearing headscarves in universities and workplaces. But what happens when the “rights” demanded by dominant religious groups contradict the rights and demands of others?

A group of activists marched to Madımak Hotel in the eastern province of Sivas to commemorate the killing of 35 intellectuals in 1993.

A motorcycled assailant opened fire on the crowd attending a funeral service in a cemevi in Antep province. Three were injured in the event.

An Alevi association annual report reveals at least 60 right abuses including board-marking of apartments with Alevi residents, discrimination of Alevis' funerals were committed in 2012.