Alevi

The digital activist

Meet one of Turkey’s original digital protesters — and see how she’s keeping up the fight for change

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“Meryem” was a force on Twitter during the Gezi Park protests, tweeting news and information in Turkish and in English. She was covering the protests 22 hours a day — but that’s a difficult pace to maintain when protest movements lose steam.

A Syrian Alawite girl who has just arrived in Istanbul from Aleppo, Syria, is sheltering with her family at the Pirsultan Abdal Cemevi.

Fleeing rebels, desperate Syrians find refuge among Istanbul’s Alevis

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