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The persecution of Yazidis by Kurds describes the atrocities and massacres of the Yazidis committed by Kurds. The goal of the Kurds was to force them to convert to Islam. Almost the whole Yazidi population were nearly wiped out by massacres carried out by Kurds.

History

Some massacres of the Yazidis committed by Kurds:

• In 980-981, the Kurds surrounded the Yazidis in the Hakkari region and killed most of them. Some Yazidis were captured and forced to Islam.
• In 1414, the Kurds killed the Yazidis in the mountains of Hakkari. Then the Kurds destroyed the holy temple Lalish of the Yazidis and desecrated the tomb of Sheikh Adi. Later, the Yazidis rebuilt their temple and the tomb of Sheikh Adi.
• In 1585, the Kurdish leader Ali Saidi Beg from Bohtan and his soldiers killed more than 600 Yazidis in Sinjar. Then the Kurds have raped many Yazidi girls and women.
• In 1832, the Kurdish emir Mohammed Pasha Rawanduz (Mire Kor, the blind prince) with his troops committed a repeated massacre of the Yazidis in Khatarah (modern Iraq).
• In 1832, Mohammed Pasha Rawanduz and the Kurdish emir Bedir Khan Beg (Bedirxan Beg, the prince of Botan) with their troops committed a massacre of the Yazidis in Shekhan (modern Iraq).
• In 1832, a Yazidi leader was killed by the Kurdish emir Bedir Khan Beg in Shekhan area. Then the Kurds invaded the villages of the Yazidis and destroyed them. They have killed many Yazidis. By an attempt to escape, many Yazidis have going into the Tigris river. Those Yazidis who could not swim were kidnapped by the Kurds. Then the Kurds give them the option to convert to Islam or to be killed.
• In 1833, the Yazidis were attacked in the Aqrah region by the Kurdish emir Mohammed Pasha Rawanduz and his soldiers. About 500 Yazidis were killed in the upper Zab by them.
• In 1840-1844, the Kurdish emir Bedir Khan Beg committed a repeated massacre of the Yazidis in the Tur Abdin region (modern Turkey). At the Islamic sacrificial festival he slaughtered the Yazidis instead of a sheep.
• In 1915-1923, Yazidis were killed alongside Armenians during the Armenian genocide at the hands of the Kurds. More than 300,000 Yazidis were killed. Many Yazidis have also fled to Transcaucasia.

Modern times

• Since 2003, when the Kurds occupied the settlements of the Yazidis in the disputed territories of Northern Iraq, the Yazidis were undergoing a process of Kurdification by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). According to a HRW report the Kurdish authorities have used heavy-handed tactics against the Yazidis and some Yazidis were kidnapped and beaten by the KRG.
• On 3 August 2014 the Yazidis became victims of an ongoing genocide by ISIL. Many Kurds have joined ISIL. And the genocide could only happen because the Kurdish Peshmerga had fled from ISIL and left the Yazidis defenseless.

See also

• History of the Kurds

References

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