Sivas 1993: What happened at the Madımak hotel?

July 2, 1993 and who lost their lives in Sivas each year, the experience of Turkey with the actions and activities organized in different places.

Social media is used extensively for commemoration and # unutmadımaklı my label in recent years is widely shared. [19659003] On July 2, the memory of a massacre is etched. That day, 33 of the intellectuals and artists who went to Sivas to attend the festivities of the Pir Sultan Abdal, two hotel officials lost their final result of the fire of the hotel .

A group of intellectuals, artists and poets went to Sivas to participate in a four-day program

One of the speakers at the opening of the festival, on July 1, was Aziz Nesin

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Asım Bezirci, the eldest of the 33 people, and the youngest Koray Kaya, who went to Sivas for the folklore show, were among the people who went to the city

Behçet Aysan, Metin Altık, Uğur Kaynar, Hasret Gültekin, Nesimi Çimen and Asım Bezirci.

Dutch citizen Carina Cuanna was the only extraterrestrial victim of the Thedora Thuys massacre

Click – The story of Carina, the foreign victim of the Sivas massacre

Two days before the massacre, a statement circulated in the city.

In the statement, it was criticized that the period of hosting the festivities by the governor of Sivas Ahmet Karabilgin was criticized. "For Nesin," In the city, almost Muslims [19659000]

How did the events begin?

After a prayer on Friday, July 2nd, a march began in front of the cultural center where the events were taking place. "/>

19659002] One of the slogans was" Secular Sivas will be buried. "Part of the aggressive group destroyed the newly erected" Peoples Poems "statue and dragged it to the ground, a party protested Ahmet Karabilgin in front of the governorate

According to the report that Valinin sent to the Ministry of the Interior after the massacre, the number of attackers increased every hour, according to the same report, there were 15,000 people in front of the Hotel Madımak at 18:00 in the evening.

About 2 hours later, the hotel was burned down and continued on crowded aggressive slogans.

In the agency images Ihlas pulling in front of the hotel Madımak, slogans of people surrounding the hotel His words were also heard.

Reinforcements invited to the city did not arrive on time or were inadequate, while one called the attacker on the first floor of the hotel app elé "Lan close" and the other called "Hell Fire".

After the death of Turgut Özal, Tansu Çiller, elected President of the Republican Party (DYP) in place of Süleyman Demirel, elected President of the Republic and Prime Minister, has held the position for a week.

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The President of the Republic Süleyman Demirel pointed out that the incident was an individual and that it had not been "turned into an Alevi-Sunni conflict":

In the words of the people who lived at the Madimak Hotel, they said: