Concept and Consensus: Alevi Initiative and Workshops

Abstract

First paragraph: The Turkish government initiated a series of attempts to be di-rectly informed about the main problems of Alevis and to take a step towards the solution of these problems from February, 2009 on. The most important one of those attempts was undoubtedly the work-shops that were held under the title of “Initiative”. In the work-shops, 400 people in total gathered in seven sessions giving more attention to the discoursal representation of the participants.