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__-' "'..'FF_ Facingpage: Men and wonten pray together in the Cent Evi irt lstanlail. lJnlike tlrc Sunni rnajority, Alevis nrcet once a week only, on Thursday evettings. Above: Alet isnt is related to tlze Bektashi Sufi branch of Islant like the Bektashi, the Alevis Hacibektag Veli, a saint of the 13th cenutry. Here, dervishes are prayingin Galatasaray Bektasi Dergahi in Istnnbul. Alevis number up to 1O million officially in Turkey, but ii's widely believed that there may be as many as twice that. They're the largest minority in Turkey after Kurds. The Alevi were violently persecuted under the Ottomans, and although they have been given more freedoms during the republican era, persecution has continued in some form or other into the present day. Alevis generally supporl secularism, but the communities have still not been not granted the same rights as the majority Sunni Muslims, who do not consider the Alevi people to be true Muslims at all. Alevis fund their own houses of worship (known as "Cem Evi"). ln the Cem Evi, men and women stand side by side, because the Alevis recognise no gender discrimination - they say that God does not discriminate. They use music to bring themselves closer to god, as they say music raises the spirits. The "sema" is a form of meditation in the form of dance, which brings one closer to god. Alevi rituals are mostly practised in Turkish, rather than in Arabic, as they are in Sunni mosques. Alevis consider their faith to be a branch of Shia lslam, as they venerate the lmam Ali. <strong>Movement</strong> 13
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