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Nesimi Çimen


Nesimi Çimen


Nesimi Çimen (1931 – 2 July 1993) was a Turkish folk singer and poet. He was killed, along with 34 others, during the Sivas massacre in Sivas, Turkey when a group of Islamist rioters set fire to the hotel where the victims had gathered for the Pir Sultan Abdal festival.

See also

  • List of Turkish musicians
  • List of massacres in Turkey

References

External links

  • "Sivas Massacre and Turkey's Persecution of the Alevi Community". uscirf.gov. United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.



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