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BRITISH-based members of Turkey’s Alevi community demanded the release of British Alevi Federation (BAF) chairman Israfil Erbil today after he was detained on arrival in Istanbul over the weekend.
He had flown out to attend a commemoration service to mark the 42nd anniversary of the Maras Massacre, a 1978 pogrom in which more than 100 men, women and children were killed by Sunni Muslim extremists and Turkish nationalists, with the alleged collusion of the CIA and the Turkish state.
Mr Erbil, whose federation represents around 300,000 British-based Alevis, was reportedly quizzed about the content of a speech he made at last year’s commemoration by police.
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