Gazi Quarter riots

1995 Gazi Quarter riots
Date12–15 March 1995
Location
Caused byDrive-by shootings, killing a religious leader and injuring 25
MethodsRiot, urban guerrilla warfare
Parties
Lead figures

Hayri Kozakçıoğlu
Governor of Istanbul
Mehmet Ağar
Chief of the General Directorate of Security
Necdet Menzir
Istanbul Chief of Police
Nahit Menteşe
Minister of the Interior
Col. Veli Küçük
Gendarmerie General Command
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Mayor of Istanbul

Casualties and losses
23 dead and 1,000+ wounded
over 400 wounded

The 1995 Gazi Quarter riots (Turkish: Gazi Mahallesi olayları) or 1995 Gazi Massacre (Turkish: Gazi Katliamı) were events that occurred in March 1995 at the Gazi Quarter, a working-class neighborhood in the then Gaziosmanpaşa district, today Sultangazi district, of Istanbul, Turkey, where mostly Alevis live. The riots began after drive-by shootings on several cafés at the same time, and spread over other places in Istanbul and also in Ankara in the next days. During the four-day unrest, 23 people were killed and more than 1,400 rioters and police were injured.[2]

  1. ^ Zürcher, E.J.; Linden, H. van der (2004). The European Union, Turkey and Islam (PDF). Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy: Amsterdam University Press. p. 130. ISBN 90-5356-712-7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-11-07. ...in March 1995, Sunni radicals opened fire on several coffee houses in the Alevi district of Gazi in Istanbul. This led to massive protests throughout the country, in which some thirty people died. Peace was only restored when the Gazi police, who were heavily infiltrated by Grey Wolves, were replaced by military units.
  2. ^ "Ergenekon zanlısı, Gazi mahallesi provokatörü çıktı -". Star Gazete (in Turkish). 2008-07-04. Retrieved 2012-02-18.

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