Gazı Massacre Commemoratıon

 The massacre in İstanbul's Alevi-majority Gazi neighborhood was commemorated on March 12, 2022 by hundreds of people on its 27th anniversary.

Twenty-two people were killed and more hundreds were injured in the incidents that took place between March 12 and 15, 1995.

The events began with an armed attack by anonymous people from a passing taxicab on several coffee shops in the neighborhood, where a "dede," an Alevi religious leader, was killed. The assault sparked protests both in Gazi and Ümraniye district on the Asian side of İstanbul, to which police responded with gunfire.

As a result of the events that lasted for 3 days, 22 people lost their lives, 7 of them by the bullets from the guns of the police.