Çorum massacre
Massacre of Alevi Turks in Turkey in 1980
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The Çorum pogrom or Çorum massacres occurred in the province of Çorum in north-central Turkey between May and July 1980. Turkist ultranationalists targeted the Alevi minority which led to as many as 57 deaths and over 200 injuries in the ensuing violence.[citation needed] Another target was the social-democratic Republican People's Party (CHP).[1] Many victims were young people and women.[2]
| Çorum massacre | |
|---|---|
| Location | Çorum, Turkey |
| Date | May–July 1980 |
| Target | Alevis |
| Deaths | 57 |
| Injured | 100+ |
In 2012 "former rightist agitator" Adnan Baran stated that uncertainty remains about the exact nature of the events and urged that a dialogue between the rightists and leftists take place in order to better understand the events, which he speculated might have been part of a larger military plan to set up a pretext for the Sept. 12, 1980 coup d'état.[3]