Nesimi Çimen Explained

Nesimi Çimen (1931  - 2 July 1993) was a Turkish folk singer and poet.^[1] He was killed, along with 34 others, during the Sivas massacre in Sivas, Turkey when a group of Islamist rioters set fire to the hotel where the victims had gathered for the Pir Sultan Abdal festival.^{[2] [3]}

See also

• List of Turkish musicians
• List of massacres in Turkey

External links

• Web site: Sivas Massacre and Turkey’s Persecution of the Alevi Community . uscirf.gov . United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Biography Nesimi Çiçen . 4 June 2022 . biyografya.com . tr.
2. Web site: Victims of 1993 Sivas massacre commemorated . stockholmcf.org . . 4 June 2022 . 2 July 2020.
3. News: The Madimak hotel is to be bought by government . 4 June 2022 . . 18 June 2010.