Ömer Çelik, spokesperson for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), said the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Özgür Özel committed a hate crime against Türkiye’s Alevi community.

Özel said in an interview on Saturday that the AK Party viewed cemevis, places of worship for the community, as “houses of merriment” and that was the

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