In our latest podcast Evangelos Areteos, journalist and Research Associate on ELIAMEP’s Turkey Programme, talks to Odin Linardatou about the communities of the Bektashis and the Alevis, on the life of the Bektashis in Thrace, about their similarities and differences with Shiite Islam, the role of the Bektashis in the Genitsar corps and the radical restructuring after 1826.

You can listen to the new podcast on Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, YouTube and Amazon music.

Publication: 21/12/2023
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Alevis of Thrace: a community with roots in centuries
Εvangelos Areteos Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow, Turkey Programme
Odin Linardatou Head of Communications