ABSTRACT
It should be noted that the observations and evaluations presented in this paper as a contribution to a comparison of Alevi and Sunni political activity are essentially the comments of a journalist who has given particular attention to the examination of the Sunni Islamist movement. At the same time, I should point out that a large amount of the material utilised in this comparison was amassed during work on the preparation of a 12 day series on “Alevi Activity” for the Istanbul daily Milliyet in 1995. At the same time, for the reader’s information, I should like to add that I myself am a Sunni by origin, but that I spent my childhood and early youth in a predominantly Alevi neighbourhood and spent some time as a member of a predominantly Alevi left wing political movement.
