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18th Pir Sultan Abdal Etkinlikleri (Festival) 2007

15 Wednesday Jun 2011

Posted by koerbin in Banaz

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Aşık Garip Kamil, Aşık İsmail Şimşek, Banaz, Dertli Divani, Erdal Erzincan, Mercan Erzincan, Pınar Sağ, Tolga Sağ, Yıldız Dağı

Some photos from the last Pir Sultan Abdal Şenlikleri (Festival) that I attended in June 2007. The location is the village of Banaz, north of Sivas.

General view of the performance amphitheatre on Ziyaret Tepe above the village.

View of Yıldız Dağı from the amphitheatre, with banners.

Banazlı aşık İsmail Şimsek opening the performances with Banazlı turning the semah.

Mercan Erzincan performing with group.

Pınar Sağ with backing group.

Aşık Garip Kamil and semah turning.

Dertli Divani

Tolga Sağ and Erdal Erzincan late on Sunday afternoon.

Lokma kurban preparation on Topuzlu Baba

İki Temmuz Sivas massacre memorial Banaz village

07 Tuesday Apr 2009

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Banaz, Madımak, Sivas

Sivas Memorial Banaz June 2007When I last visited Banaz in 2007 there was a new memorial erected to the 2nd July 1993 Sivas victims. The memorial includes a sculpture of doves – one for each of the victims – and a stele with the names of the 33 ‘Alevi souls’ killed. The number of victims of the Sivas massacre is often confused and variously given as 37, 35 or 33. As in the Banaz memorial the 33 people associated with the Pir Sultan Abdal festival are commonly honoured and named by Alevis. The memorial also notes the death of two employees (though not named) of the Otel Madımak. Two others, making up the 37, were killed outside the hotel from among the rioters. 

Sivas memorial names Banaz June 2007

Yıldız Dağı

27 Friday Mar 2009

Posted by koerbin in Banaz

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Banaz, Yıldız Dağı

Any search for Pir Sultan necessarily leads to the village of Banaz and the view from the hill above the village towards “Star Mountain”. Literally breathtaking in the cooling breeze from the Sivas highlands on a mid-Summer day. The picture on the header was taken at the Pir Sultan Abdal festival in June 2002.

The full picture includes the ‘meydan’ in the foreground. Not sure if the Banazlı actually conduct cem-s here as there is a cemevi on the other side of the hill at Topuzlu Baba. Was privilaged to attend a cem (late into the night) lead by Dertli Divani during my second visit to the PSA festival in Banaz in 2007.

Yıldız Dagı from Ziyaret Tepe, Banaz

Yıldız Dagı from Ziyaret Tepe, Banaz

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