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The Unknown Turkish Genocide Of Kurdish
Yezidis
10.3.2008
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March 10, 2008
Yerevan, Armenia ,-- In 1915-1918 the upper
circles of the Ottoman Empire, taking advantage of
the conditions of the World War, organized and
realized genocide of Turkey's national minorities.
During a few years the Ottoman Empire actually
completely slaughtered the native peoples of the
country: Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks. Nowadays
the world is aware of numerous facts and details of
these terrible atrocities committed by Turkey's
authorities endowed with state power.
The world's most progressive countries condemned the
Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire on the state
level and mark mournful data of the Genocide's
beginning together with Armenians, Greeks and
Assyrians. |
Kurdish Yazidis on the mountain of Sinjar,
Iraqi-Syrian border, 1920s |
However, in this
sorrowful list of peoples destroyed by Turks Yezidis,
a distinctive and native nation on the territory of
the Ottoman Empire, are actually never mentioned.
Meanwhile, even an incomplete list of settlements of
Yezdistan (a territory in the north of Iraq), where
Turkish vandals slaughtered Yezidis, is quite and
quite impressive: Sinjar, Sinoun, Gobal, Dgour, Gali
Ali Bage, Dhok, Zorava, Karse and Bare, Siba, Tlizer,
Tlzafe, Khrbade Kavala, Grzark, Rmbousi, Sharok,
Tlkazar, Tlbanta, Kocho, Khotmi, Mosoul, Rndavan,
Amadia. Over 200,000 Yezidis were slaughtered in
these settlements.
The Yazidis are mostly ethnic Kurds were also
destroyed by Turkish soldiers on the territory of
Western Armenia, where they had been living in
harmony with Armenians for ages. Below is the
mournful list: Van region -- 100,000 innocent
victims; Moush region -- over 60,000 victims;
Erzroum region -- 7,500 victims; Kars region --
5,000 victims, Sourmalu -- 10,000 Yezidi victims…
The list is never-ending and tragic.
Side by side with deportation and massacre the
Turkish government forcibly turned Yezidis,www.ekurd.net
who profess original
religion connected with worship of the Sun, into
Islam. The Turkish historiographer Katib Tchelebi
states that in 1915-1918 about 300,000 Yezidis were
massacred on the territory of the Ottoman Empire.
However, according to verified data, those years
over 500,000 Kurdish Yezidis were slaughtered by
Turks, and this sinister fact has not been condemned
by the progressive countries of the world.
Undoubtedly, politicians and specialists must know
how many Yezidis became the victims of the Turkish
state in various settlements.
Before the beginning of the World War I, according
to the sources, over 750,000 Yezidis resided on the
territory of the Ottoman Empire, and over 500,000 of
them were massacred by Turks. 250,000 more were
forcibly deported and found shelter:
in Iraq, in the vicinity of Sinjar Mountain,
100,000.
in Turkey, in the regions of Batman and Diarbeqir,
12,000.
in Syria, in the settlement of El-Kamishli, 15,000.
in Armenia, 12,500.
in Georgia, 3,000.
Nowadays the Kurdish Yezidi people scattered by the
whole territory of Northern Asia and Near East
require the reestablishment of justice and
recognition of events of 1915-1918 as Genocide. We
are convinced: defiance of historic crimes against
mankind will inevitably result in a precedent for
new crimes. Actually, it is already taking place. In
August and September of 2007 over a thousand of
innocent Yezidis, peaceful inhabitant of the region,
were destroyed in the north of Iraq, in historical
Yezdistan.
We appeal to the U. N., the U. N. Security Council,
Presidents of the U. S. and Russia, heads of the
European states, President of Turkey and urge:
To restore historical justice and condemn the
genocide of Yezidi people, which took place in the
Ottoman Empire in 1915-1918.
National Union Of Yezidis Of The World
The Yazidi (Yezidi, Kurdish) are adherents of the
smallest of the three branches of Yazdânism, a
Middle Eastern religion with ancient Indo-European
roots. The Yazidis are mostly ethnic Kurds, and are
primarily Kurdish speaking, and most live in the
Mosul region of northern Iraq. There are traditional
communities in Transcaucasia, Turkey, Syria and the
west of Armenia
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Kurds are not recognized as an official minority in
Turkey and are denied rights granted to other
minority groups. Under EU pressure, Turkey recently
granted Kurds limited rights for broadcasts and
education in the Kurdish language, but critics say
the measures do not go far enough.
The use of the term "Kurdistan" is vigorously
rejected due to its alleged political implications
by the Republic of Turkey, which does not recognize
the existence of a "Turkish Kurdistan" Southeast
Turkey.
Others estimate over 40 million Kurds live in
Big Kurdistan (Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Armenia),
which covers an area as big as France, about half of
all Kurds which estimate to 20 million live in
Turkey.
Turkey is home to 25 million ethnic Kurds, a
large Turkey's Kurdish community openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK for a
Kurdish homeland in the country's mainly Kurdish
southeast of Turkey.
Before August 2002, the Turkish government placed
severe restrictions on the use of Kurdish language,
prohibiting the language in education and broadcast
media.
The Kurdish alphabet is still not recognized
in Turkey, and use of the Kurdish letters X, W, Q
which do not exist in the Turkish
alphabet has led to judicial persecution in 2000 and
2003
The Kurdish flag flown officially in Iraqi Kurdistan
but unofficially flown by Kurds in Armenia. The flag
is banned in Iran, Syria, and Turkey where flying it
is a criminal offence"
Southeastern Turkey:
North Kurdistan (
Kurdistan-Turkey)
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