The British Alevi Federation and the Cemevi, many people gathered in front of the Turkish Embassy in London and protested against the arrangement of cemevis brought to the Parliament by the AKP within the omnibus law.

In the action supported by the Democratic Forces Union, slogans such as "We will not be Alevis of the State", "We are Alevis, we are right, we will win" were chanted. BAF Co-Chair Dilek Incedal and Cemevi co-chair Ibrahim Has said: “We are Alevis. Like Imam Hussein in Karbala, Hünkar in Anatolia, Pir Sultan in Banaz, Shah Kalender in Nurhak, we neither give up our faith nor turn from our path.”

The speakers said that Alevis wanted equal citizenship and asked the Turkish state to implement the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights. The speakers added: "Our cem houses are our place of worship".

After the speeches, a black wreath was laid at the gate of the Turkish Embassy, ​​accompanied by applause and slogans.

In a controversial pre-election move directed at Turkey’s Alevi population, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has established a new public agency to coordinate Alevi places of worship, "cemevis".

The new body, attached to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, will research the needs of the cemevis — the Alevi community's houses of worship — as well as Alevism and Bektashism, according to the decree. It also sees the establishment of an 11-strong consultative body, all of them selected by the president. 

Many members of the Alevi community and the opposition parties criticized the bill as a cosmetic step that ignores the community's actual needs and denies it recognition as a religious and not a cultural community. 
“What the Alevis want is the recognition of their cemevis as places of worship, not as cultural centers,” Mithat Sancar, the co-chair of the pro-Kurdish People's Democracy Party, said in the parliamentary debate. “They want a liberal, secular education for their children" rather than a curriculum that focus on Sunni Islam and refer to Alevism as a culture.