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-ÊZÎDÎLİK TARİHİ VE ÊZÎDÎLERİN YAŞADIKLARI COĞRAFYA ÜZERİNE GİRİŞ.
The largest group of Yezidis (approximately 400,000)2 lives in northern Iraq, which is also home to their main sanctuaries and places of pilgrimage. Other communities are found in Armenia (50,000) and Georgia (10,000); Yezidis have recently migrated in large numbers to Germany (40,000) in order to claim political asylum. Relatively small groups still survive in Syria, while the Yezidis of Turkey have almost completely left their traditional living areas and moved to Germany.
In Iraq until 2003, most Yezidis lived in areas that were controlled by the Iraqi government in Baghdad while only 10% enjoyed relative freedom in the Kurdish controlled province Duhok.Their main living areas include the Sinjar mountain range, and the Sheikhan region around the city of Ain Sifni, as well as the twin cities of Bahzani and Bashiqa near Mosul.The community’s main sanctuary, the temple and shrine of Shaykh Adi bin Musafir at Lalish,was located within the Kurdish Autonomy Zone. Yezidis from all areas are called upon to gather at Lalish for their largest religious festival cejna jemaya or the Holiday of Assembly
IRAKTAKİ (GÜNEY kURDİSTAN) ÊZÎDÎ BÖLGELERİ ÜZERİNDEN ŞENGAL VE ŞEXAN TANIMLAMASI
ŞENGAL HAKKINDA GENEL BİLGİLER
MERKEZİ HÜKÜMET VE EZİDİLER İLİŞKİSİ (ÖZELLİKLE ŞENGAL)
However, all Yezidi areas were subject to heavy Arabization policies carried out by
the Iraqi government in the 1970s and 1980s, which forced the local Kurdish popula-tion to leave their villages and to live in several mujammas, collective towns in the plains far away from their fields and villages in the mountains. Their villages were then either destroyed or given to loyal Sunni Arab tribes.3 Until recently, the return to their homeland has not been facilitated; most of the Yezidis have continued living in mujammas like Qahtaniya or Jazeera While the majority of Yezidis still inhabit the villages or collective towns, some smaller communities are also found in the larger cities of the north, such as Dahuk or Mosul. There, they lack the cohesion of a strong community that is necessary for survival in the current ethno-religious conflict.
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GÜNEY KURDİSTAN VE ŞENGAL BÖLGESİ İLİŞKİLERİ (TARİHSEL ARKA PLAN DAHİL)
ŞENGAL ÊZÎDÎLERİ SÜNNİ ARAP İLİŞKİLERİ (BASKI,İNKAR)
ŞENGALE YÖNELİK AŞIRI İSLAMCI SALDIRILARI (2004 SONRASI ÖZELLİKLE)
On August 14, 2007, in the largest single terror attack during the war in Iraq, over 350 Yezidis were killed and two entire villages completely destroyed, leaving over 1,000 families homeless.The two villages, Qahtaniya and Jazeera are located in the Sinjar Mountains, an area in northwestern Iraq that is hotly contested by Sunni Arab insurgents Kurdish peshmergas, US-led coalition forces, and several minority groups. Due to its location behind the Iraqi-Kurdish armistice line, it was very difficult for most Yezidis to attend the festival. Due to increasing terror threats and attacks, the festival has been cancelled several times recently, or has witnessed a very low turnout.
ŞU ANDAKİ İŞGALİN SEBEPLERİ/SÜRECİN GELİŞİMİ VE OLASI SONUÇLAR
ŞENGALİN KURDİSTAN İÇİN ÖNEMİ / ROJAVA VE GÜNEY KURDİSTAN'IN GÜVENLİĞİNDEKİ YERİ