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Abstract

The Alevi's form a religious community, which could be called either an order or a sect. Most of them want to be recognized as members of an Islamic sect. But the majority of the Islamic theologians in Turkey, which are Sunni's assert that there isn't an essential difference between Alevi's and Sunni's with regard to faith. The only difference was that the Alevi's retained some remnants of the old Turkish religious practices.