Turkey's Unconventional Muslim Minority

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TIME's Nathan Thornburgh and Pelin Turgut visit a once secret Alevi Muslim prayer service in Istanbul, Turkey.

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[tanitatheterrible]

excellent, thanks for this! beautiful religion

[beria2007]

even in this short shoot they have involve sex! in cemevi we do not flirt becaause soon as we entry from the door we leave are gender outside in cemevi we are CAN no sex matter going there even if you want because there is 4 person who keeps eye on everyone (gozcu)

[Argento1853]

@uqiimu Islamist retards like you make me laugh. Jews? You idiots love blaming everything on the Jews. Even TIME has said stuff against Israel retard. The owner of TIME is American-Italian. Alevi is part of Islam you like it or not, it is a Islamic sect like Shi'a. And if the Jews made up the Shi'a movement, Nasrallah, Ahmadinejad wouldn't be supporting Paleshit. Stupid puto. XD

[3choBlast3r]

@cypriot1965 You realize no better than ignorant Sunni's, why even bother answering such an idiot ..Sunni Turk

[3choBlast3r]

@robertognolu biggest bullshit .. a minority can't established by minorities .. Alevi's and Sunni's are both TURKS, most Turks Sunni or Alevi are secular.

[uqiimu]

The Jewish scumbags at TIME better stop purposely causing upset by titling this piece of shit clip as something having to do with Islam. Islam does not call to idol worship. It was the same Jews who were responsible for the creation of the Shite religion.

[uqiimu]

Why is this titled "Turkey's Unconventional Muslim Minority" ? Just by calling these heretic deviants Muslim is an insult to the only true acceptable religion of God -Islam. There is only ONE God ONE type of Islam ; the Islam as shown literally by the Prophet Muhammad ., and ONE humanity. These pagan idol worshippers are NOT Muslim. As they are clearly not satisfied with the whole and complete teachings of Islam, of which NOTHING can be added or subtracted.

[prettiyman]

essege altin kemerde vursan essek yine essek. kari saklamaya calisior ama bi turlu gileyemior aksaanini:)

[berkbbx3]

@bisiydegil He's half alevi :D before selanik he came from macedonia, and before macedonia he came from anatolia, macedonia because the sultan gave turks nearly conquered lands in order to poppulate, especially from the east due to the fact that was the main recruiting area [like kurds, but alevi's are orignaly turkish, so he's turkish] his dad's name is Ali Riza, an obvious alevi name, and his idea of science and philosophy is very alevi like, even after the dersim massacare, we still like him!

[bisiydegil]

@berkbbx3 Melami culture and tradition, their effects like tolerance, love for God and human on Turkish culture and thinking. However, Ataturk's origin is another question which I love to see being discussed. Thank for your response and quality discussion.

[bisiydegil]

@berkbbx3 and Karaman) which may have been Alevis or Bektasis at around 13th century. But it is a claim not a fact. It should be discussed and investigated. Some Nomad Turkmen tribes may have been Alevis for some time, were Alevi Turkmens majority, that's another question. The fact is, now these Turkmen people are Sunni and they don't claim any Alevi connection. Again, I respect Alevi people, I have many friends and neighbors at my home area and abroad. Nobody can deny Haci Bektas Veli, great