regions, many Yazidis sought refuge in Western countries. Recently, some Yazidis have returned to their home villages in Turkey. The 2014 Yazidi genocide that...
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or Shaitan and as a result, they consider the Yazidis 'devil worshippers'. IS does not consider Yazidis People of the book nor does it consider them eligible...
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Yazidis in Armenia (Armenian: Եզդիները Հայաստանում; Kurdish: Êzîdiyên Ermenistanê) are Yazidis who live in Armenia, where they form the largest ethnic...
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Yazidism (redirect from Yazidi religion)
of the Yazidis as "devil-worshippers". Persecution of Yazidis has continued in their home communities within the borders of modern Iraq. Yazidis, however...
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The persecution of Yazidis has been ongoing since at least the 12th century. Yazidis are an endogamous and mostly Kurmanji-speaking minority, indigenous...
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foreigners began studying Yazidis in the 1850s, they believed that the Yazidis had sacred books and thus tried to find them. While Yazidis do have sacred books...
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article: Mishefa Reş The Yazidi Black Book (Kurdish: Mishefa Reş) is one of two books written in the style of a holy book of the Yazidis in their native Kurmanji...
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Tawûsî Melek (category Yazidi mythology)
centuries of violent religious persecution of the Yazidis as "devil-worshippers". Persecution of Yazidis has continued in their home communities within the...
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list of Yazidi settlements in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Armenia, including both current and historical Yazidi settlements. Historically, Yazidis lived primarily...
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Sinjar massacre (category Persecution of Yazidis by ISIL)
Şengalê) marked the beginning of the genocide of Yazidis by ISIL, the killing and abduction of thousands of Yazidi men, women and children. It took place in...
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Qahtaniyah bombings (redirect from 2007 Yazidi communities bombings)
building up in the area, particularly between Yazidis and Sunni Muslims (both Arabs and Kurds). Some Yazidis living in the area received threatening letters...
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Kurmanji (redirect from Yazidi language)
language. Kurmanji Kurdish is also the common and ceremonial language of Yazidis. Their sacred book Mishefa Reş and all prayers are written and spoken in...
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counselling for asylum seekers. Yezidi National Union ULE Yazidis in Germany Nineveh Plain List of Yazidi organizations "About us". Ezidische Akademie. Retrieved...
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There is a social organizational structure in the Yazidi community. There are three main castes, namely the Mirids, the Sheikhs, and the Pirs. Furthermore...
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2007 "Top-15 Beautiful Kurdish and Yazidi Women". Nineveh Governorate List of Yazidi settlements Genocide of Yazidis by ISIL List of Yazidi organizations...
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Yazidi literature is literature produced by the Yazidi people. Although Yazidi literature has traditionally been primarily oral, many Yazidi texts have...
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(majorly Shia populated) regions of Iraq. The Yazidis of Jabal Shingal constituted the majority of Iraqi Yazidi population - the third largest non-Muslim...
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Kurds and Yazidis are counted as separate ethnic groups in Armenia (on the relationship between Yazidis and Kurdish identity, see Yazidis#Identity)....
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ISIL-linked violence. The genocide of Yazidis by ISIL has led to the expulsion, flight and effective exile of the Yazidis. The 2016 Karrada bombing killed...
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Sinjar Alliance (category Yazidi organizations in Iraq)
majority of Yazidis found safe passage through a corridor into Iraqi Kurdistan, provided by the YPG, PKK, HPS and the newly formed YBŞ. The Yazidis are a group...
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Fexredîn (redirect from Fakhraddin (Yazidi saint))
ISBN 978-5-91356-048-3. Murad, Jasim Elias (1993). The Sacred Poems of the Yazidis: An Anthropological Approach. University of California, Los Angeles. Kreyenbroek...
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Human rights in Islamic State-controlled territory (category Persecution of Yazidis by ISIL)
(70–90 Yazidis killed), Hardan (60 Yazidis killed), Sinjar (500–2,000 Yazidis killed), Ramadi Jabal (60–70 Yazidis killed), Dhola (50 Yazidis killed)...
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Yazidism in Syria (redirect from Yazidis in Syria)
religion. Yazidis in Syria live primarily in two communities, one in the Al-Jazira area and the other in the Kurd-Dagh. Exact population data of Yazidis in Syria...
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Yazidism in Georgia (redirect from Yazidis in Georgia)
between Yazidis in Georgia and Yazidis in Armenia with the Yazidis in Iraq, Turkey and Syria. In 1989 there were 33,000 Yazidis in Georgia. After the collapse...
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People's Protection Units. ANF (24 November 2018). "Yazidi House becomes umbrella organization of Yazidis in Rojava". Ajansa Nûçeyan a Firatê. ANF English...
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of Yazidis from Bashiqa gathered in the street to protest the killings. Qahtaniyah bombings, later that same year in August 2007 Genocide of Yazidis by...
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Pêkhateya Êzidî) is a Yazidi political party in Iraq. The party represents Yazidis in the Nineveh Governorate. It has retained one seat in the Council of...
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Duhok (category Yazidi populated places in Iraq)
include Assyrians, Yazidis and Arabs. The city also hosts tens of thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs), most of whom are Yazidis and Assyrians...
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Lalish (category Yazidi holy places)
the holiest temple of the Yazidis. It is the location of the tomb of the Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir, a central figure of the Yazidi faith. The temple is above...
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Destroying the soul of the Yazidis" (PDF). Rashid International. Retrieved 22 December 2020. "After ISIS Genocide, Yazidis Need More Than Remembrance"...
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