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Çorum massacre

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Çorum massacre
LocationÇorum, Turkey
DateMay–July 1980
TargetAlevis
Deaths57
Injured100+

The Çorum pogrom or Çorum massacres occurred in the province of Çorum in north-central Turkey between May and July 1980. Turkist ultranationalists targeted the Alevi minority which led to as many as 57 deaths and over 200 injuries in the ensuing violence.[citation needed] Another target was the social-democratic Republican People's Party (CHP).[1] Many victims were young people and women.[2]

In 2012 "former rightist agitator" Adnan Baran stated that uncertainty remains about the exact nature of the events and urged that a dialogue between the rightists and leftists take place in order to better understand the events, which he speculated might have been part of a larger military plan to set up a pretext for the Sept. 12, 1980 coup d'état.[3]

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  1. ↑ "Çorum Olayları'nda ölen 57 kişi için ilk anma töreni - Netgazete.com". Retrieved 2014-01-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  2. ↑ Sadık Eral: Çaldıran'dan Çorum'a Anadolu'da Alevi Katliamları; Ant Yayınları, 2. Auflage, 1993; S. 133–134
  3. ↑ Today's Zaman, 2 January 2012, Former rightist calls for dialogue over 1980 Çorum massacre,http://www.todayszaman.com/news-267446-former-rightist-calls-for-dialogue-over-1980-corum-massacre.html Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
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