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In interviews with NBC News, Yazidi civilians and activists said hard-line mullahs in Iraqi Kurdistan have increasingly targeted the small and insular community, inciting violence in public ...
Yazidis, however, believe Tawûsî Melek is not a source of evil or wickedness. [5] [10] [19] They consider him to be the leader of the archangels, not a fallen angel. [5] [19] [21] [22] The Yazidis of Kurdistan have been called many things, most notoriously 'devil-worshippers', a term used both by unsympathetic neighbours and fascinated ...
Soviet Yazidis were able to establish the first Kurdish theatre and radio station in history, in addition, the first Kurdish Latin-based alphabet was created by the Yazidi intellectual Erebê Şemo, who was also responsible for writing the first-ever Kurmanji novel in 1929 titled "Şivanê Kurmanca" (The Kurdish/Kurmanji Shepherd).
Some Yazidis managed to take refuge in the neighboring forests and mountain fastnesses, and a few of them managed to escape to distant places. [26] Many Yazidis from Sheikhan, who had fled from the Kurds but could not cross the Tigris river, gathered on the great mound of Kouyunjik, where they were persecuted and killed by Muhammad Pasha's men ...
Turkey regularly launches airstrikes against its members because it is aligned with the Kurdistan Workers Party’ or PKK, a Kurdish separatist group that has waged an insurgency in Turkey.
The Sinjar massacre (Kurdish: Komkujiya Şengalê) marked the beginning of the genocide of Yazidis by ISIL, the killing and abduction of thousands [14] [15] [22] of Yazidi men, women and children. It took place in August 2014 in Sinjar city and Sinjar District in Iraq's Nineveh Governorate and was perpetrated by the Islamic State of Iraq and ...
The Yazidi residents of Sinun in northern Iraq who returned home faced many challenges. Following ISIL's retreat from Iraqi and Kurdish forces in the region during late 2017 campaigns, both governments laid claim to the area. The Yazidi population, with only about 15% returning to Sinjar during the period, was caught in the political crossfire.
Kocho (Kurdish: کۆچۆ, romanized: Koço; [1] [2] Arabic: كوجو [3]) is a village in Sinjar District, south of the Sinjar Mountains in the Nineveh Governorate of Iraq.It is considered one of the disputed territories of Northern Iraq and is populated by Yazidis. [4]