Then there is the issue of the Alevis, a religious minority linked to Sufism and Shi’ism. The Alevis, who had been protected by the secular Kemalist state, deeply distrust Erdoğan, who further unsettled them by planning to name a new bridge over the Bosphorus after a sixteenth-century sultan who massacred their forebears.
此外还有与苏菲及什叶派相关的宗教少数群体阿列维派的事务。受世俗凯末尔国家保护的阿列维派对埃尔多安的不信任深入骨髓，后者用16世纪屠杀阿列维人祖先的苏丹名字为横跨博斯普鲁斯海峡一座新桥命名的打算加深了阿列维派民众的不安情绪。