Already beset by a raft of corruption allegations, Turkey's prime minister now faces charges of insulting the minority Alevi community in the latest revelations to emerge from a widening phone-tapping ...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey could allow state schools to teach the Alevi Muslim faith, a senior ruling AK party member said, part of measures to ease EU criticism of restrictions on minority rights.

Observers of the growing humanitarian crisis in Syria are increasingly worried that the conflict will turn into sectarian struggle, and with good reason: The Assad regime has enjoyed overwhelming ...

These days in the small courtyard at the Pir Sultan Cemevi, a house of worship in Istanbul, a few women sit on benches, men stand around chatting and sipping tea, while children haggle over donated ...

“The Alevis maintain the secular balance in Turkey,” the thoughtful man said, “They are the infantry of Kemalism,” alluding to the radically anti-religious doctrines laid out by modern Turkey’s ...

Opposition Presidential candidate Kilicdaroglu's Alevi identity was perceived by some Turkish Islamist and secularist sectarians as an electoral barrier. However, when Kilicdaroglu actively embraced ...

Alevi organizations in Turkey: We don’t pay our taxes so that you invest in sharia Alevi organizations protested compulsory religious education at schools by holding protest demonstrations in İstanbul ...

Thousands of people from Turkey's minority Alevi community on Sunday held protests over the deaths of two people during a police crackdown on demonstrators earlier in the week. Protestors flocked to ...

In an Ankara suburb, a new religious complex is going up, promoted as a bridge of understanding between the Sunni majority and Turkey's largest religious minority, the Alevis. But the combination ...

emote and poor, Tunceli has all the ingredients of a typical rural town in eastern Turkey, except that Tunceli is anything but typical. Women here do not wear kerchiefs. The central mosque remains ...

Government has sent envoys to consult Alevis on demands Alevis seek official recognition of places of worship Have long complained of assimilation pressures, bias Support for ruling AK Party dwindling ...

On 12 June, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which has governed Turkey for the past eight years, will be seeking a third election victory. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ambitions to ...