Asım Bezirci (Erzincan, 1927 – Sivas, 2 July 1993) was a Turkish critic, writer and poet.[1][2] He was killed, along with 34 others, during the Sivas massacre in Sivas, Turkey when a group of Islamists set fire to the hotel where the victims had gathered for the Pir Sultan Abdal festival.[3][4][5]