On 2 July 1993, during the Pir Sultan Abdal Kultur Celebrities in Sivas organised by progressive Allevite circles, the Madimak Hotel where many writers, artists, intellectuals and musicians who had gone to Sivas for the Celebrities were staying, was attacked and set on fire by thousands of people provoked by reactionary and fascist forces. 33 people, among them intellectuals and artists, were burned alive and lost their lives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sivas_massacre

After a provocational bombing act organised by civil fascists orientated by the state during a film show at Cicek Cinema on 16 December 1978, the Sunni people in Maras were incited and attacked the Allevite people. Houses were burnt, torture and rapes took place in house raids, 111 people, among them women and children, were killed, hundreds were injured, 522 houses and 289 work places were set on fire and destroyed.