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The new willingness of the Turkish government to talk to the Alevi minority in the country has met with mistrust from many of its members. Most of the Alevi organisations refused to accept an invitation to dinner issued by the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Andreas Gorzewski reports