Efforts to separate Yazidi community from its culture and beliefs

Throughout history, the Yazidi community has been subjected to countless campaigns of ethnic genocide, and the number of massacres committed against it has so far reached 73 massacres known as the "firman", most of which were carried out by the Ottoman occupation, which tried to obliterate the identity and culture of this community. Within five years, the occupying state of Turkey and its mercenaries committed the worst types of crimes against him.

The start of the Turkish occupation state’s attack on Afrin canton on January 20, 2018, was accompanied by death threats, slaughter and captivity of the Yazidis, and during the entry of the Turkish occupation state and its mercenaries into the Yazidi villages, they destroyed the Yazidi shrines and tried and are still trying to force the Yazidis to leave their religion, and impose culture, religion and extremist thought  on them, in a step that is a continuation of what ISIS mercenaries did in Şengal.

 Yazidis in the occupied Afrin canton

The Yazidis are distributed in 23 villages, in the district of Sherawa (Iska, Shadira, Ghaziouya, Burj Abdullah, Ain Dara, Teranda, Qibar, Kimar, Basofan and Ba'i).

And in the sub-districts of Shera and Janders, they are distributed in the villages of (Qatmeh, Sinka, Pavilion, Qastal Jendu, Ali Qina, Faqira, Qajuma, Qila, Ashkan Sharqi, Jaqla, Kafr Zeit and the center of Janders district), in addition to the city center of Afrin.

Yazidi shrines in Afrin canton

In the occupied Afrin canton, there are 19 shrines for the Yazidis, scattered in the districts of Sherawa, Shera, and Janders.  (Qara Jarna), Sheikh Barakat (Mount Sheikh Barakat), Sheikh Ali (Basoufan), Sheikh Rikab (Shadria), Sharaf Din (Pavilion), Bir Javier (Kafrajneh), Ziyarat Hajri and Sheikh Abd al-Qadir (Teranda), and Sheikh Karras (Deir  Balut), and the Abu Kaaba (Abu Kaaba village, and Sheikh Qassab (Burj Qass)).

The policy of genocide against the Yazidis in Afrin

With the occupation of Afrin canton, the Turkish occupation and its mercenaries began targeting the Yazidis and committing crimes against them, through the killing machine, kidnapping, theft and looting, forcing them to convert to Islam, not to mention the destruction of their religious shrines.

According to the Yazidis Union of Afrin canton, the Turkish occupation and its mercenaries killed 11 citizens, including 4 women from the Yazidi community, after occupying the canton, and kidnapped 64 citizens, including 19 women and minors.  They permitted the sale of property before the eyes of its owners.

 Building settlements in Yazidi villages

In August 2020, the Turkish occupation began building a Sharia school called "The Imam and the Preacher" on the ruins of the Yazidis Union Center in Afrin.  It is a model of schools that follow extremist education, funded by the Kuwaiti Sheikh Abdullah Al-Nouri Brotherhood Association and supervised by the “White Hands” organization. On September 23, 2021, the so-called “Afrin Local Council” of the occupation opened it.

In the village of Shadira in the Sherawa district, close to the “White Hands” and “Living in Dignity” associations affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, a settlement complex that accommodates 70 families, as well as in the Yazidi village of Pavillon after the displacement of its entire population from it;  With the aim of settling Palestinian and Turkmen families,  supported by Qatar and Kuwait.

The Turkish occupation and its mercenaries also built it;  On the ruins of the Yezidis' houses of worship in the Yezidi villages, there are centers for spreading the extremist ideas of mercenaries. In the village of Shadira, a center was built, with the support, funding and supervision of the Palestinian "Living in Dignity" Association, and the implementation of the "White Hands" Association.

In the Yazidi village of Qastal Jindu, which is controlled by the mercenaries of the Northern Storm Brigade, a mosque was built in the village, although there are no Muslims in the village, and all its residents are Yazidis.

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