It was July 2 1993.Lieu, east of Sivas in Turkey l. Hotel Madimak there were intellectuals, writers, poets, musicians, dancers and cartoonists from the four corners of Turkey to participate in a festival culturel.Ils were eighty. Their goal was simply to express their artistic talents, autograph books, to interpret their music and dance, share the most beautiful poetry with the public Sivas.Ils came to commemorate the Alevi poet Pir Sultan Abdal, who lived in the 16th century Sivas. Organized group, thousands of Islamist fanatics fundamentalist, nationalist fascist opponents of secularism, democracy, enemies of republican values were grouped in front of the hotel Madimak.Pendant 8:00, artists, women and children remained hostage the hotel, security forces did nothing to deter fanatical crowd. At the end, the obscurantist reactionaries set fire to the hotel Madimak. 33 intellectuals and artists, died in this tragedy alive incendie.pour hide the shame of humanity, the Turkish state was quick to restore the hotel with public funds, then to open a restaurant on the ground floor, where they serve meat to customers!. 17 years have passed since. Each year, July 2, Democrats, secularists, intellectuals and artists paid tribute to the victims ..

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