The Maraş massacre (Turkish: Maraş katliamı) was the massacre of more than one hundred Alevis[3] in the city of Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, in December 1978, by the neo-fascist Grey Wolves[4] and conservative Sunnis. The tensions were initially ignited by a noise bomb thrown into a movie theater frequented by extreme Turkish nationalists. The incident is best remembered for the subsequent campaign of violence directed against left-wingers, mostly Alevi Kurds, although some left-wing Sunnis were also targeted.