Lecco’da Yirmi Beş Tokatlı Türk Alevi ve “Alevi Bektaşi İtalya”nın Kurulması

Abstract

Bu makale, Alevi Bektaşi İtalya’nın -ilk İtalyan Alevi derneği- kurulmasının ardındaki mantığa ışık tutmayı amaçlamaktadır. Bu çalışma, kuzey İtalya’nın Lecco kentinde çoğunlukla 2018 ve 2019 yıllarında yapılan saha çalışmasına, mülakatlara ve katılımcı gözlemlerine dayanmaktadır. Ancak saha çalışması gezileri 2016 yılına kadar uzanmaktadır. Dernek, ağırlıklı olarak Türkiye’nin Batı Karadeniz Bölgesinde yer alan Tokat’ın kırsal kesiminden gelen Aleviler tarafından kurulmuştur. Bu çalışma, İtalya’da bugüne kadar yapılmış bu tarz ilk araştırmanın sonucunu bildirmekte ve Alevi Bektaşi İtalya Derneği’nin eski başkanları da dâhil olmak üzere bir dizi kaynak kişiden toplanan verilere ve hepsinden önemlisi derneğin kurucularından biri olan, çok önemli bir kaynak kişinin yaşam öyküsüne dayanmaktadır. Makale, aşağıdaki şu noktaları açıklamak için yapılandırılmıştır: Türkiye’den İtalya’ya seksenlerin sonlarında ilk göç dalgalarının yörüngeleri, 2006 yılında İtalya’da bir Alevi kültür derneği kurmak için Tokatlı Alevilere ilham veren etkiler, kültür merkezinin faaliyetleri ve son olarak da kültür merkezi ve üyelerinin İtalya ve ötesindeki son siyasi değişikliklere tepki verme biçimleri.

Keywords

• Alevi Kültür Merkezleri, İtalyan Alevi Derneği, Tokat, Lecco

THE TWENTY-FIVE TURKISH ALAWI FROM TOKAT AND THE CREATION OF THE ALAWITE BEKTASHI ITALIA IN LECCO

Abstract

This paper aims to shed light on the rationale behind the creation of the first Italian Alawi association, the Alawite Bektashi Italia. It is based on fieldwork, interviews and participant observations conducted in the northern Italian city of Lecco mostly in 2018 and 2019. However, fieldwork trips date back to 2016. The association is mainly formed by Alawis coming from the rural areas of the Turkish Middle Black Sea Region of Tokat. The paper reports the outcome of the first research of this kind ever conducted in Italy and relies on data gathered from a number of informants, including former presidents of the Alawite Bektashi Italia Association, and, above all, upon the life-story of a key informant, one of the founders of the association. The article is structured in order to describe the following points: the trajectories of the first migration waves, in the late Eighties, from Turkey to Italy; the influences that inspired Alawis from Tokat to form an Alawi cultural association in Italy in 2006; the activities of the cultural centre; and, finally, the way the cultural centre and their members are responding to recent political changes in Italy and beyond.

Keywords

• Alawi Cultural Centres, Italian Alawi Association, Tokat, Lecco

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