
ADO Statement
Dervish Ali says do not believe traitors
They are fund of their own characters
Do not try to fill God’s knowledge
To punctured pots which can never be filled.
ALEVI PHILOSOPHY CENTER has been formed;
- To understand and explain Alevi belief system and culture under contemporary conditions.
- To furnish and update social memory with correct and dependable information.
- To explain roots of Alevi philosophy to future generations,
- To keep successfully interpreted Alevi cultural and social codes during its long history, covering knowledge, music, literature, poetry, samahs, images and symbols, alive and vital within Turkey and international arenas,
- To register and disseminate demands and problems of Alevi’s with their own voice and contemporary terms, contribute to rich cultural and art treasury of Alevi community and belief system.
- To support the legal struggle of Alevi community to reobtain rights of using their historical lodges and worship places,
- To benefit from basic human rights to improve sustainability of Alevi belief system, educating young generations and benefiting from all legal and social rights provided to belief groups in modern democratic countries.
- To serve to the formation efforts of an ideal democratic society based on social equality and justice.
With these aims;
We shall work hard to establish dependable information channels, organize historical and philosophical researches and studies, we shall work hard to produce much needed information about belief system and rituals of Alevism with realistic and academic approaches, to reduce negative prejudices attributed to Alevism due to result of misinformation and illiteracy about Alevism.
We shall try to disseminate rightfully produced information with the help tools like meetings, workshops, training programs, conferences and symposiums within and out of our country.
We shall open contact and rep offices in and out of country, will consult, cooperate, organize joint studies and activities with all institutions working on human rights and religious freedom. We shall establish networks, establish contacts and become members of existing networks, working in these fields.
We shall work hard for accommodating and establishing transparency, good governance, audit traditions in belief centers and Cem houses of Alevi organizations to improve and update their activities, vitality and energy.
We shall try to benefit from all facilities of social media, press and public tools; we shall organize performances and all available communication facilities.
We have started our efforts with almost no funds with the belief that our community, which has always updated itself according to contemporary requirements of ages, will support us in our marching efforts. (August 2015)