Around 20,000 Alevi Muslims rallied Sunday, Dec 30 in the western city of Cologne against a public television detective show whose storyline featured a plot involving incest within an Alevi family. Ole Tange reports
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