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Behçet Aysan (1949 – 2 July 1993) was a Turkish physician and poet. He was killed, along with 34 others, during the Sivas massacre in Sivas, Turkey when a group of salafists set fire to the hotel where the victims had gathered for the Pir Sultan Abdal festival.

See also

• List of Turkish writers
• List of massacres in Turkey

References

1. "Biography Behçet Aysan". biyografya.com (in Turkish). Retrieved 4 June 2022.
2. "Turkish state found responsible for 1993 Sivas massacre". Hürriyet Daily News. 15 July 2014. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
3. "Victims of 1993 Sivas massacre commemorated". stockholmcf.org. Stockholm Center for Freedom. 2 July 2020. Retrieved 4 June 2022.

External links

• "Sivas Massacre and Turkey's Persecution of the Alevi Community". uscirf.gov. United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.

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