Bese Hozat said about her secondary and high school years in Kayseri that "I experienced the othering in Kayseri through Alevism and Dersimilik. When it is known that you are Kurdish and Alevi, there is an approach that marginalizes, scorns, and humiliates. Alevism, immortality, infidelity, God, religion, was reflected as something that is not the Qu'ran."[4] One of the ways in which Bese Hozat escaped this discrimination was being a part of radical left organization and many of these organizations were affiliated with Abdullah Öcalan.