Gazi Quarter riots

1995 Gazi Quarter riots
1995 Gazi Quarter riots
Date	12–15 March 1995
Location	Sultangazi, Ümraniye in Istanbul and Kızılay in Ankara, Turkey
Caused by	Drive-by shootings, killing a religious leader and injuring 25
Methods	Riot, urban guerrilla warfare
Parties
Alevi protesters DHKP/C; Marxist–Leninist Communist Party Communist Party of Turkey	Government of Turkey; General Directorate of Security; Riot Police; Police Special Operation Department; Gendarmerie General Command; JİTEM (alleged); Turkish Armed Forces (as of 14 March) Turkish Land Forces; Grey Wolves
Lead figures
	İzzettin Doğan; Özlem Tunç; Hasan Ocak 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]

^ 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.
^ "Ergenekon zanlısı, Gazi mahallesi provokatörü çıktı -". Star Gazete (in Turkish). 2008-07-04. Retrieved 2012-02-18.

[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.

[sg-2] "Ergenekon zanlısı, Gazi mahallesi provokatörü çıktı -". Star Gazete (in Turkish). 2008-07-04. Retrieved 2012-02-18.

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