On 2 July 1993, 37 participants in an Alevi cultural and literary festival were killed when a mob of demonstrators set fire to the Madimak hotel in Sivas during a violent protest by some 15,000 members of various radical Islamist groups against the presence of Aziz Nesin.
Den 2. juli 1993 blev 37 deltagere i en kulturel og litterær festival for Alevitter dræbt, da en en terrorist satte ild til Madimak-hotellet i Sivas under en voldelig protest af omkring 15.000 medlemmer af forskellige radikale islamistiske grupper mod tilstedeværelsen af ​​Aziz Nesin.