I'm a Yezidi, AMA

We are a Kurdish religious minority spread throughout the geo-cultural region of Kurdistan, though some other old communities, consisting of descendants of refugees who fled their regions (see map) due to persecution from Muslims, also exist in Armenia, Georgia and Russia.

I'm a Yezidi from Shekhan district currently under Duhok Province. I've noticed that many people have misconceptions about our religion, so I wanted to do this to answer questions about Yezidis and our religion and help clarify up any misconception or confusion about us.

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Yezidi Kurds in Georgia. Late 19th and early 20th centuries. reddit.com/gallery/rh8mtu
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👤︎ u/BalticsFox
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Flag for the Yezidi
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A Turkish airstrike destroyed a vehicle reportedly carrying a PKK official named Marwan Badal in Khana Sor town in the Yezidi-majority district of Sinjar twitter.com/K24English/st…
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👤︎ u/3r2
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Alleged Turkish strike kills Yezidi militia commander in Iraq’s disputed Sinjar kurdistan24.net/en/story/…
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Agha Petros and the Yezidis twitter.com/Khilmetkar/st…
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Monarchs of the Yezidi (Yazidi, Ezidi) ethno-religious people and genocides against Yezidis and Christians in the Ottoman empire backed by Kaiser Wilhelm II

The Yezidi (Yazidi, Ezidi) are a centuries old ethnoreligious group pf people, the majority of whome speak Kurmanji Kurdish natively and minority of whom speak Arabic natively. They live in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia and have a large diaspora in Germany. Some Yezidis identify as Kurdish and other Yezidis reject the Kurdish identity. Their religion does not allow converts. Their religion also forbids marriages between different Yezidi castes and with non-Yezidis. (There were some honor killings over relations with non-Yezidis in Germany and Iraq.) The Yezidis have been subjected to 72 genocides and persecutions in their history. ISIS, Kurdish tribes and the German Kaiser Wilhelm II backed Ottomans in World War I all perpetrated genocides on them.

The Yezidis have two hereditary leaders, the Mir (prince) who is their political leader and the Baba Shaykh who is their religious leader.

https://servantgroup.org/yezidi-castes-culture/

https://www.yazidiculturalheritage.com/society/

Kaiser Wilhelm II was an Ottomanophile Turcophile who supported genocide of Middle Eastern Christians and Yezidis. The Ottomans blasted a hole in the middle of Jerusalem's old city wall near the Jaffa gate for the Kaiser to parade through and the damage to the historical walls is still there today. I believe it's a car ramp today.

Kaiser Wilhelm II told Middle Eastern Christians under Ottoman rule like the Maronite Patriarch to convert to Islam or die off.

Kaiser Wilhelm II gave a medal to Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II after Hamidian massacres of Armenians. Kaiser Wilhelm II allied with Ottomans during Adana massacres of Armenians and helped Ottomans during the genocide of Christian Greeks, Armenians and Assyrians as well as Yezidis in World War I. Ottomans committed mass slaughters and rapes with German help.

Kaiser Wilhelm II genocided the Herero and Namaqua people in Namibia committing massacres and rapes and massacred over 100,000 Blacks in German East Africa Tanzania including black Muslims and forced them to grow pork. By the way the Germans conquered Tanzania from Omani Arabs like Abushir (Al Bashir ibn Salim al-Harthi). Ottomans did not care. The Arabs including Abushir were killed in battle with German forces in 1888-1889.

Basically the Ottomans and Kaiser Wilhelm II agreed that the Ottomans could genocide Middle Eastern Christians and Greeks while Kaiser Wilhelm II could genocide Black Muslims and neither would care.

Kaiser Wilhelm II also hated East Asi

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👤︎ u/yuraelien
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CoE Human Rights Commissioner Wants Armenia to Provide Information on Criminal Case Against Yezidi Activist hetq.am/en/article/138172
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Yezidi Kurds in Georgia. Late 19th and early 20th centuries. reddit.com/gallery/rh8mtu
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German court gives life sentence to Daesh terrorist for genocide, crimes against humanity resulting in death, war crimes, aiding and abetting war crimes and bodily harm resulting in death against Yezidis; his wife gets 10 years for crimes against humanity rudaw.net/english/world/3…
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The curtain was lifted from the statue of the Yezidi martyr Jilan Barjas, in #Sinjar, who refused to be a captive with the organization and committed suicide in order to protect herself during the first days of her kidnapping in 2014.
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German court gives life sentence to Daesh terrorist for genocide, crimes against humanity resulting in death, war crimes, aiding and abetting war crimes and bodily harm resulting in death against Yezidis; his wife gets 10 years for crimes against humanity rudaw.net/english/world/3…
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IS-strijder in Duitsland veroordeeld voor genocide om dood yezidi meisje nu.nl/buitenland/6170684/…
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Alleged Turkish strike kills Yezidi militia commander in Iraq’s disputed Sinjar kurdistan24.net/en/story/…
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Kurdistan PM Masrour Barzani addresses crimes against Yezidis on the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime kurdistan24.net/en/story/…
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A. Kalantar and Yusuf Bek,1912.Yusuf Bek was the first Yezidi elected to the Armenian parliament.
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The Yezidi movement in Armenia (1992) groong.com/orig/ja-199807…
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Today marks the tragic anniversary of the Yezidi Genocide perpetrated by ISIS, which killed, enslaved, and displaced thousands of Yezidis.
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Why has Turkey been attacking Yezidi lately?

This week there seems to be a lot of Turkish attacks in Sinjar targeting Yezidi villages and even a refugee camp. Knowing the area/history/culture, I find it hard to believe that Turkey is defending itself by attacking poor villages and a camp of genocide victims. The only thing I can think of is that Turkey wants to further draw the Yezidis into their conflict in Iraqi-Kurdistan. But that's just my theory. I'm curious about what other people think is going on.

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Yezidi religion and cultural ritual

Hello everyone,

This is probably my first post in the group.I am a kurd from diaspora living in Europe and I am very proud of my kurdish identity like the rest of my family and especially my father (he is from the first youth generation of kurdish resistance during 80s in Turkey).I have grown in an utopia, thinking that all kurds are perfect and are liking their roots and country that they are understanding our struggle and the necessity to have our own country and nation.

Unfortunately the shock was violent the first time I have discussed with some kurds of Turkey (totally assimilated) and also with others prouds kurds having weird knowledges about our history and the structure of our kurdish society because they don't have enough knowledge about Kurds

Recently I have discussed with a kurd from bakur (northern kurdistan) during my holidays in Istanbul. We have discussed about last 10 years kurdish policies in the 4 parts and the criminal act commited by Turkey against kurds then we talked about sengal and Ezidi.He told me about an Ezidi ritual, happening once a year, in a large room with no light, with an orgie happening there. Told me that every individual more than 12 years old is participating to the event. So I have denied it, saying that it was fake propaganda made by Turkey and its pawns to demonize Ezidi because kurdish Ezidi are more difficult to assimilate than muslim kurds. Then he told me that an ezidi friend of him confirmed that this event existed in the past but don't exist anymore.I don't believe the existence of this event but I am surprised about the naivety of some of us that could use this kind of false rumors to kill them like in the past.What do you think about that and have you heard the same thing or others fake rumors regarding our kurdish brothers and sisters ?Thank you guys

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Yezidi New Year CarsemaSareSale Tomorrow . It coincides with all the Indian new years — Ugadi, Baishakhi, Gudi Padwa, Bihu, Poila Baishakh, Vishu, Puthandu... v.redd.it/t21q9n5jbys61
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Germany honors Kurdish-Ezidi (Yezidi) journalist Düzen Tekkal with Germany’s highest honor, the Order of Merit, or Bundesverdienstkreuz, for activism regarding the Yezidi genocide, advocacy for the women who survived ISIS captivity, and bringing more visibility to the fate of the Yezidi community kurdistan24.net/en/story/…
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Yezidis welcome statement of 'great concern' by 18 nations on missing captives kurdistan24.net/en/story/…
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Germany honors Kurdish-Ezidi (Yezidi) journalist Düzen Tekkal with Germany’s highest honor, the Order of Merit, or Bundesverdienstkreuz, for activism regarding the Yezidi genocide, advocacy for the women who survived ISIS captivity, and bringing more visibility to the fate of the Yezidi community kurdistan24.net/en/story/…
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​Finishing what ISIS started? Turkey attacks Yezidis in Iraq | As Turkey bombs the Yezidis in Sinjar, it is our duty to mobilize in solidarity against Turkish aggression and in support of the Yezidi pursuit of local autonomy. roarmag.org/essays/turkey…
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👤︎ u/Le_Frique
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Ismail Chol Beg, the early 20th century Yezidi Mir of Shingal, member of Xoybûn movement and an advocate for enrollment of children in schools. twitter.com/BaedriKurd/st…
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The Iraqi Council of Representatives on Saturday conducted the first reading of a proposal to recognize the Islamic State (IS) massacre against Yezidis as a genocide. basnews.com/en/babat/6437…
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Armenia: Authorities Must Drop Charges against Yezidi Human Rights Defender and Protect Freedom of Speech freedomhouse.org/article/…
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Yezidi activist Farhad Shamo is among the finalists for the Global Student Prize 2021 in France kurdistan24.net/en/story/…
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Germany honors Kurdish-Ezidi (Yezidi) journalist Düzen Tekkal with Germany’s highest honor, the Order of Merit, or Bundesverdienstkreuz, for activism regarding the Yezidi genocide, advocacy for the women who survived ISIS captivity, and bringing more visibility to the fate of the Yezidi community kurdistan24.net/en/story/…
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KRG PM Masoud Barzani congratulates Yezidis on their annual pilgrimage known as the Gathering and Feast of Seven Days (also called the Jamayi or the Ziyaret) kurdistan24.net/en/story/…
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Yezidi activist Farhad Shamo is among the finalists for the Global Student Prize 2021 in France kurdistan24.net/en/story/…
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Yezidi Church in Armavir region. reddit.com/gallery/m1wf31
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Yezidi Immigration to the United States in the early 20th Century /r/AskHistorians/comments…
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UN report says Kurds and Yezidi’s targeted by Turkish-backed groups in Syria - Kurdish women, including Yezidi women, were raped and subjected to sexual violence by Turkish-backed groups, a UN report said on Monday kurdistan24.net/en/story/…
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ISIS women: we will grow up and educate our children to fight and kill Kuffars. Many of them participated in Yezidi Genocide. twitter.com/Yezidis_/stat…
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👤︎ u/Owl_Pen
📅︎ Jun 15 2021
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Poor security, services in Sinjar force 95 Yezidi families to return to Kurdistan Region refugee camps kurdistan24.net/en/story/…
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2016. Irak. Je suis journaliste pour l’agence CAPA et me rends au Mont Sindjar. Jamais je ne pourrais oublier ce grand-père yezidi et les atrocités de Daesh qu’il raconte. Jamais. twitter.com/ClaireKoc/sta…
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👤︎ u/Matad_or
📅︎ Jun 28 2021
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​[Iraq] Finishing what ISIS started? Turkey attacks Yezidis in Iraq | ROAR Magazine roarmag.org/essays/turkey…
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👤︎ u/burtzev
📅︎ Aug 22 2021
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Assyrian sculptor Thabet Mikhail and his son Ninos prepared a statue for Yezidi Mother Kooli, a symbol of courage, murdered by the Islamic State when they occupied Sinjar areas. Thousands of Yezidis and Assyrians remain displaced after the rise of the Islamic State. twitter.com/Yezidis_/stat…
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A million people march in Baghdad on the anniversary of, the unlawful assassination of Qasim Soleimani and Abu Mahdi Al Muhandis, both of whom were vital in crushing ISIS, and the latter, in saving Yezidis. U.S flag burning also took place; they should've been cheering for U.S for saving them right? reddit.com/gallery/kqbhbd
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​Finishing what ISIS started? Turkey attacks Yezidis in Iraq | As Turkey bombs the Yezidis in Sinjar, it is our duty to mobilize in solidarity against Turkish aggression and in support of the Yezidi pursuit of local autonomy. roarmag.org/essays/turkey…
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👤︎ u/Le_Frique
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