In Banaz spent Hızır seven years of Pir Sultan Abdal, as his disciple. One day he came to Pir Sulta

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We have often seen people carry around a symbol that shows a man who lifts a saz - the Anatolian lute instrument gun shop - over his head. It symbolizes the Pir Sultan Abdal, which saz'en show its opposition to the system.
Pir Sultan Abdal was a Turkmen Alevi poet, rebel and martyr whose poems about oppression, resistance and love, today read throughout gun shop Turkey. He lived about the 16th century and was hanged by the Ottoman governor Hızır Paşa as punishment for his rebellion.
In Banaz spent Hızır seven years of Pir Sultan Abdal, as his disciple. One day he came to Pir Sultan Abdal and asked for his advice. He predicted that Hızır would one day go away and come back as a great man and hang Pir Sultan gun shop Abdal. And that was exactly what happened. Hızır went to Istanbul, rose through the ranks and returned to Sivas as Ottoman governor.
"Therefore, we comply with religious laws (Sharia) gun shop provisions ... issued an order (fatwa) to this population [Alevis] are infidels and heathen. To destroy such a population is the duty of every Muslim. The holy martyr Muslims in this context die, will achieve the highest paradise. "
About qadi'erne, muftierne issue a fatwa (Kadılar, Müftüler fetva yazarsa) Here is the rope if they hang me (İşte kemend, işte boynum asarsa) Here is the knife, they cut off my head (İşte enhancer, işte kellem keserse) Do the one that will give its path. I'm not giving up my way (Donen dönsün leg dönmezem yolumdan)
His poetry is echoed in the music today and has for centuries been played on the Anatolian lute instrument Saz, which today is one of the most used and popular instruments in the country. The rebellious Alevi poet was so popular that at least six other poets have used the same name. He has since short, symbolized Alevis why radical Islamists in 1993 toppled a statue of Pir Sultan gun shop Abdal in the town of Sivas before they set fire to a hotel where over 30 Alevi intellectuals gathered under the Pir Sultan gun shop Abdal Festival in summer 1993. 37 people died in the fire, where security forces were subsequently criticized for not intervening. Massacres like this boosted the organization among Alevi-diaspora in Europe and then also in Turkey, gun shop where a large number of associations now named after Pir Sultan Abdal.