Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan has pardoned another perpetrator of the 1993 Sivas massacre. Erdoğan's decision was published in the official gazette on Wednesday.

Hayrettin Gül's life sentence has been lifted due to "permanent illness".Gül had initially been sentenced to the death penalty, which was later commuted to life imprisonment.

In 2020, another perpetrator sentenced to life imprisonment, Ahmet Turan Kılıç, was pardoned by Erdoğan at the age of 86.

The massacre took place on 2 July 1993 and was directed against participants in a cultural festival organised in honour of the Alevi folk poet Pir Sultan Abdal in the central Anatolian city. The guests at the festival, who were staying at the Madımak Hotel, were mainly Alevi artists; poets, thinkers, singers and folklore dancers, but also critical intellectuals of different denominations. 35 people, including two hotel employees, died in the fire at the Madımak Hotel.