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    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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    creature Lucifer or Shaitan and they consider the Yazidis 'devil worshippers'. IS does not consider Yazidis as People of the book or eligible for Dhimmi and...
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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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    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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    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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  • between $1000 and $3000. Members of the Yazidis community which includes Babasheikh Kherto Ismael, the Yazidi spiritual leader, and those involved in...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    The celebrations start on the eve of Wednesday, i.e. Tuesday evening (Yazidis believe 24 hours of the day start at sunset), eggs are boiled and coloured...
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    Yazidis in Germany may refer to people born in or residing in Germany of Yazidi origin, an ethnic group or Kurdish group who are strictly endogamous....
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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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    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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  • persons of Kurds-Yazidis. Ali Atalan, politician Arab Shamilov, novelist Amar Suloev, mixed martial artist, hitman Amin Farhan Jejo, Yazidi politician and...
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  • 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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    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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    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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  • (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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    Sinjar (category Yazidi populated places in Iraq)
    genocide of Yazidis by ISIL. The genocide was enabled partly as a result of the Peshmerga flight from the ISIL offensive, which left the Yazidis defenseless...
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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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    Baghdad. Iraqi people are diverse; mostly Arabs, as well as Kurds, Turkmen, Yazidis, Assyrians, Armenians, Mandaeans, Persians and Shabakis with similarly...
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  • Yazidi literature is literature produced by the Kurds-Yazidi people. Although Yazidi literature has traditionally been primarily oral, many Yazidi texts...
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    Nadia Murad (category German Yazidis)
    faced by Yazidis nearly five years after the 3 August 2014 attacks. She laid out a "five-point plan of action" to address the challenges Yazidis face in...
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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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    In 1919, the Yazidis received permission from the Georgian government to register an organization called The National Council of Yazidis in Tbilisi. In...
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    estimates, the number of Yazidis in Iraq is up to 700,000. According to the Yazda aid organization, just over half a million Yazidis lived throughout Iraq...
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    Society for Threatened Peoples, 300,000 Yazidis originally lived in Turkey.[when?] In the 1980s, the number of Yazidis in Turkey was around 60,000. In 1993...
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