Alevis in the Kavimkırım Climate

Although the title of the book in your hand has an emphasis on understanding the Alevis, rather than understanding the Alevis, the book in your hands deals with the heavy attacks of the state and, more broadly, a ruling network against the Alevi ritual - from Alevism to Tuzluçayır, from Dersim's sheikhs to dedelik with state pollution. It is aimed at discussion within the framework of state, ritual and politics. At this very moment, Ayhan Yalçinkaya asks once again: Will we choose Bedreddin or the state? Today, Bedreddin is the entire social surface on which Gezi and Gezi wander; It is Tuzluçayır, Okmeydani, Antakya. Many will say, "This surface calls us to freedom and equality; the state calls us to oppression, violence, immortal inequality and death." "Then what a ridiculous and treacherous question this question is!" Moreover, Alevism, as a ghost that becomes more and more evident on all surfaces of Gezi, which has been turned into a ghost that is gradually fading away, is dying among Alevi children! However, Yalçınkaya's answer is a little different: Choosing the state once again, perhaps more than ever before in history, offers us, for the first time, a final confrontation with the roots of the state and politics, a ground for a harsh reckoning; And the opportunity for the truth claim of politics to be destroyed by the reality of politics. The meaning of the existence of the Alevi communities in Turkey, which is of vital importance for all of us, is right here: What makes it possible for us to see that body, with all its political burden, that historians and sociologists swing on the non-political swing of the past and the present, and for this very reason, how the politics of the state is non-political? -The political structure of Alevism is one of the last examples that make it obvious that it is politicized; Even if it is with its dying existence.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 470

Year of Printing: 2014


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Footnote

Number of Pages: 470

First Printing Year: 2014

Language Turkish