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| Turkish PM urges Alevi leaders to be alert, while stressing need to eradicate ISIL |
| 2015-08-23 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet DavutoÄŸlu has urged the Alevi community to be alert against those "who want to make brothers kill each other," while also stressing that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) must be eradicated. "Daesh has been inflicting a major blow to Islam. It needs to be eradicated since it has been inflicting a major blow to human dignity," DavutoÄŸlu said on Aug. 22 during his speech to Alevi leaders in the capital Ankara, using another acronym for ISIL. Alevis constitute the second-largest religious community in Turkey after Sunni Muslims. Turkey's Supreme Court ruled on Aug. 17 that Turkish state should cover the expenses of cemevis, Alevi houses of worship. Avoiding the thorny domestic issue in his speech, DavutoÄŸlu stressed that Islam was a "religion of peace and love," and not what ISIL was trying to portray, which was a picture of "tyranny." "Cemevis should be seen as the convent of peace. We should all be alert that there might be people who want to make brothers kill each other. It is a duty for us all to stand against whoever attacks us. We should be hand in hand," he added. In his speech, DavutoÄŸlu also said that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was another evil that needed to be eradicated jointly. |
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