[media id=309 width=610 height=340]<\/strong><\/p>\n Turkish authorities have also announced that a government official will also attend the remembrance ceremonies of the 35 innocent people who perished in the hotel fire.<\/p>\n Amongst those who were killed includes singer song writer and poet Nesimi \u00c7imen, poet Metin Alt\u0131ok, writer As\u0131m Bezirci, Turkish folk singer Hasret G\u00fcltekin and many other important Alevi and well known intellectual figures at a time where many prominent figures who criticized the government were mysteriously killed such as U\u011fur Mumcu, Bahriye \u00dc\u00e7ok, Turan Dursun, \u00c7etin Eme\u00e7 and many others.<\/p>\n Five people under the age of 20 including a 12-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl also fell victim to the mob.<\/p>\n Over 50 people were injured in the incident where many writers, intellectuals and important figures in Turkey have blamed the military and security forces for not doing enough to disperse the crowd.<\/p>\n The crowd\u2019s anger was mainly at Aziz Nesin a well known figure in Turkey, who was an author, supporter of free speech, a political activist and a critic of Islam.<\/p>\n The crowd amassed after Friday prayers<\/strong> The mob then went over to the cultural centre where hundreds of Alevi\u2019s, singers, authors and intellectuals, some invited by the Sivas governor, Ahmet Karabilgin, attended a festival in the name of a prominent figure of the Alevi religion, Pir Sultan Abdal.<\/p>\n The mob, who was confronted by security forces, stoned the cultural centre but were stopped from actually getting into the building.<\/p>\n At around 2.45pm, almost 33 soldiers from the Turkish military had come to the area where the violent protests were occurring but only stood and watched.<\/p>\n At around 3.30pm after no adequate support came for the police officers, who were stopping the crowd from entering the cultural centre started to throw stones at the building and took down a statue of Pir Sultan Abdal.<\/p>\n The people inside the cultural centre locked the doors from the inside and only after the mayor of the time, Temel Karamollao\u011flu, asked the crowd to leave, did they eventually start going back home or to their work place.<\/p>\n The Mob was directed to the Mad\u0131mak Hotel The crowd at this time had reached around 5000 against only 500 security officials. For up to seven hours from the time the mob left the mosque and gathered in front of the Mad\u0131mak hotel, no adequate numbers of riot police or military came to the area.<\/p>\n At around 7pm the police and security forces who were completely overwhelmed by the 10,000 strong mob had reached the walls of the Mad\u0131mak hotel.<\/p>\n The statue which was ripped in front of the cultural centre was brought to the centre of the mob and ripped apart.<\/p>\n At this time members of the mob had went into the hotel and looted the first two floors and thrown some of the furniture to the entrance of the hotel as though they were trying to stop those inside getting out.<\/p>\n Ahmet Karabilgin said that after, he had asked for support from the area military commander, that only 30 to 40 soldiers had come but only to the government square to protect the governor and not the people at the Mad\u0131mak hotel. Also many other soldiers who came to the area had stand guard in totally inadequate locations of the city rather than actually dealing with the crowd.<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Soldiers were turned around by the Mob The soldiers, after negotiations with some leaders of the crowd then saw that they did not have the numbers to deal with the mob and turned back.<\/p>\n This has been seen as the, catalyst effect which led to what happened next.<\/p>\n After the soldiers left the area, the cars and objects which were thrown in front of the hotel were set on fire.<\/p>\n Within minutes the hotel was engulfed in flames, the angry mob shouting victory slogans while a group of soldiers only watched on.<\/p>\n Some protesters were heard saying, \u201cAllah, this is your fire\u201d while others shouted, \u201cthe fire of hell\u201d.<\/p>\n Nesin was “thrown” to the angered mob After the fire brigade eventually got through to the Mad\u0131mak hotel, a fireman who had put a ladder up and led survivors off the building saw that Aziz Nesin was coming down.<\/p>\n The Fireman was then seen throwing Nesin off the vehicle into the middle of the angry crowd literally \u201cchucking him like a bag\u201d.<\/p>\n One man alleged to be a politician of the now closed Welfare Party (Refah Parti) was heard shouting, \u201chere is the animal which needs to be killed\u201d pointing at Nesin.<\/p>\n Nesin who was kicked and punched while on the ground started to bleed and by the sheer luck of a police officer nearby, Nesin was put into a police van and taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n The crowd who then went to the Government building where governor Karabilgin was, attacked the building, which for some miraculous reason, no security forces were present at.<\/p>\n The crowd eventually was dispersed by 18 soldiers who came in front of the government building.<\/p>\n 37 people in total died because of the fire, 33 were Alevi and well known intellectuals, poets and singers, while two were hotel staff and another two were the protesters themselves that were either burnt alive or died due to smoke inhalation.<\/p>\n After the massacre, a curfew was place in Sivas to calm the air down but, till this day, the Sivas Massacre also known as the Mad\u0131mak Massacre or the Sivas fire has had social implications till this day.<\/p>\n Those 33 people and the two hotel staff have become unknowing heroes and a tragic milestone which marks one of the darkest days in Turkish history.<\/p>\n Those who died in the Mad\u0131mak Hotel fire Write your comments and thoughts below.<\/strong><\/p>\n Error, group does not exist! 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(ID: 19)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sivaz Mad\u0131mak massacre 17th anniversary : It was exactly 17 years to the day, July 2nd 1993 that Turkey lived one of its darkest days in its history when 33 Alevi and well known intellectuals were burnt alive by Radical Islamists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,74,63,118,172,174,194,173,14],"tags":[10579,10580,10582,10581,10590,10592,10588,10584,10576,10578,10585,10577,10586,10573,10575,10583,10614,10574,10591,10589,10587],"class_list":["post-7410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-culture","category-daily","category-hot","category-turkey-choice","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-headlines","category-world","tag-1993-madimak-katliami","tag-1993-sivas-olaylari","tag-37-people-dead","tag-aziz-nesin","tag-bahriye-ucok","tag-cetin-emec","tag-hasret-gultekin","tag-islamic-group","tag-madimak-hotel","tag-madimak-hotel-anniversary","tag-madimak-hotel-attack","tag-madimak-hotel-massacre","tag-madimak-video","tag-sivas","tag-sivas-1993","tag-sivas-hotel-fire","tag-sivas-madimak-fire","tag-sivas-massacre","tag-turan-dursun","tag-ugur-mumcu","tag-video-madimak-hotel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Two hotel staff and two protesters were also killed in the massacre.<\/h2>\n
Remembrance marches and gatherings are being organized all over Turkey and in many European countries to commemorate and honor the 35 innocent people who were murdered, by the Islamic mob.<\/h2>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/madimak-hotel-fire.jpg\" "\\"madimak")
\nThe angered crowd had amassed after the afternoon Friday prayers to the thousands and marched to Government Building where Sivas governor of the time, Ahmet Karabilgin was, shouting protests and trying to get into the building, but were stopped by security forces.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/aziz-nasin-280x210.jpg\" "\\"aziz")
\n<\/strong>However, as the angered mob was dispersing, a group of people called the group back to the Mad\u0131mak hotel where Aziz Nesin and dozens of the people who had attended the festival were staying.<\/p>\n
\nA small group of soldiers that tried to get close to the Hotel were halted by the angry mob shouting \u201csoldiers to Bosnia\u201d slogans.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>The drama did not end there; some of the people inside the burning building who tried to jump over to the balcony of the building beside the Mad\u0131mak hotel were confronted by angry protesters with sticks as the floor was the Sivas office of the BDP, an Islamic Party.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/madimak-hotel-dead.jpg\" "\\"madimak")
\n<\/strong>Erdal Ayranc\u0131 – age 35
\nG\u00fclender Ak\u00e7a – age 25
\nBeh\u00e7et Aysan – age 44
\nYasemin Sivri – age 19
\nEdibe Sulari – age 40
\n\u0130nci T\u00fcrk – age 22
\nKenan Y\u0131lmaz – age 21
\nU\u011fur Kaynar – age 37
\nNesimi \u00c7imen – age 67
\nAhmet Alan – age 22
\nMehmet Atay – age 25
\nSeherg\u00fcl Ate\u015f – age 30
\nG\u00fcls\u00fcm Karababa – age 22
\nCarina Cuanna – age 23
\nMuhibe Akarsu, age 35
\nMuhlis Akarsu \u2013 age 45
\nAs\u0131m Bezirci – age 66
\nBelk\u0131s \u00c7ak\u0131r- age 18
\nSerpil Canik – age 19
\nMuammer \u00c7i\u00e7ek – age 26
\nG\u00fcnd\u00fcz – age 22
\nMetin Alt\u0131ok – age 52
\nSerkan Do\u011fan – age 19
\nHasret G\u00fcltekin – age 23
\nMurat G\u00fcne\u015f,Murat
\nAsaf Ko\u00e7ak – age 35
\nKoray Kaya – age 12
\nMenek\u015fe Kaya – age 17
\nAhmet \u00d6zt\u00fcrk – age 21
\nAhmet \u00d6zyurt – age 21
\nNurcan \u015eahin – age 18
\n\u00d6zlem \u015eahin – age 17
\nAsuman Sivri – age 16
\nHandan Metin – age 20
\nSait Metin – age 23
\nHuriye \u00d6zkan – age 22
\nYe\u015fim \u00d6zkan – age 20<\/p>\n