The president of the association, Mehmet Ali Dikkaya hosted Elibüyük and the accompanying delegation.

Two sides exchanged views about the judicial process of Başbağlar Massacre that its perpetrators have not been found despite 27 years.

The Başbağlar massacre, as one of the darkest days in the history of Turkiye, carried out on July 5, 1993.

It has been 27 years since the massacre has been carried out, one of the largest civilian massacres of the Republican history in Turkey.

The massacre that started at 20.00 pm on Monday, July 5, lasted until 22.00 pm.

Entrances and exits of the village were blocked, phone lines were cut off. At 01.00 in the night, Başpınar Gendarmerie Headquarters was informed but they never showed up and did not take the notice into consideration.

The school, mosque, village chambers, imam house, neighborhood rooms, teacher's house, which the villagers built by their own means, hundreds of animals, 5 vehicles and 191 houses were burnt or destroyed by lava weapons, hand grenades, dynamite, and inflammable chemicals.

The names of those carried out the massacre resulted in the death of 33 people, did not determine but the mentality that carried out the massacre was obvious, which it was retaliation of Madımak that took place on July 2. Because the killers gathered people in the square of the village and propagated for 1.5 hours were saying, “Sivas' revenge was taken”. (ILKHA)