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29 arrested in Iraqi Kurdistan for
infiltrating into Turkish territories
26.8.2007
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August
26, 2007
Duhok, Kurdistan region (Iraq), --
Twenty-nine people were arrested near the Iraqi
Kurdistan-Turkish borders for attempting to
infiltrate into Turkish territories, an official
source from the border guard forces in Duhok
province said on Sunday.
"The infiltrators were arrested on Saturday evening
by a police patrol near the Iraqi
Kurdistan-Turkish-Syrian border triangle, 10 km west
of Zakho," Lt. Col. Delir Farzanda Zebari, the
official in charge of a border guards unit in Dirbon,
Zakho, said.
Those arrested were mostly Kurdish Yazidis and their
ages are between 19 and 30 years old. They confessed
to attempting to enter Turkey illegally and paying
$100-300 each for the smugglers, Zebari explained.
Yazidis are primarily ethnic Kurds and most live
near Mosul, with smaller communities in Armenia,
Georgia, Iran, Russia, Syria, and Turkey. They
number around 500,000 individuals in total, but
estimates of their population size vary, partially
due to the Yazidi tradition of secrecy about their
religious beliefs.
Kurdish Yazidis worship seven angels, in the form of
peacocks, who are subordinate to the supreme god who
created the universe.
Kurdistani border guard forces in Duhok arrested
more than 400 people during the past six months in
different parts near to the Iraqi Kurdistan-Turkish
borders for attempting to sneak into Turkey.
Most of them are young Kurdish men from different
parts of Kurdistan and Iraq, they want to reach
Europe through Turkey.
Duhok is the third province within Iraq's Kurdistan
autonomous region. It is in the far north of 'Iraq'
with borders shared with Turkey.
VOI
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