They aim to obliterate the Kurdish culture by targeting Yezidis" The Yazidi people in al-Jazeera region and Şengal said, "The enemies of the Kurdish people are aiming to erase the Kurdish culture by targeting the Yezidi religion." They pointed out that the Turkish occupation army and its mercenaries in Afrin are imposing Islam on the Yazidis there amidst a shameful international silence.

They aim to obliterate the Kurdish culture by targeting Yezidis" The Yazidi people in al-Jazeera region and Şengal said, "The enemies of the Kurdish people are aiming to erase the Kurdish culture by targeting the Yezidi religion." They pointed out that the Turkish occupation army and its mercenaries in Afrin are imposing Islam on the Yazidis there amidst a shameful international silence.

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Throughout its history, the Yezidi community has been subjected to numerous attempts of genocide by targeting the Yazidi culture and heritage.

With the entry of the Turkish occupation army and its mercenaries into Afrin, they targeted the Yazidis and destroyed their religious shrines in an attempt to obliterate the history of the area.

The Yazidis of al-Jazeera region and Şengal said to ANHA agency that the Yazidi community suffered the calamities and tragedies at the hands of "the Ottomans;" the antecedents of Turks, while they are continuing their brutal practices in Afrin against the Yazidis after which the Yazidis have suffered from tragedies; the brutality of IS who received direct support from Turkey.

The administrator in the Yazidi House branch in al-Hasakah canton Diala Sheikho said, "We have suffered a lot of pain and tragedy throughout thousands years. All the attempts of genocide and the massacres that we have suffered were at the hands of the Turkish state under various names. For example, the Turkish occupation army and its mercenaries are imposing on the Yazidi people to go to the mosques and impose the veil and Islamic dress on women, aiming to hit the Kurdish culture by targeting the Yazidis.

Diala stressed that the Yazidis resisted against all the attacks and were able to preserve their heritage and originality, and indicated that they would not allow anyone to erase their rooted culture as they are working to organize themselves so the international community must also have a clear position of what the Yazidis are exposed to in the world.

A member of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of Şengal, Hesso Ibrahim continued "The attacks of the Turkish occupation army not only target the Yazidis in Afrin, but target them in the whole of Rojava, Bakur and Başûr Kurdistan.

He pointed out that the Turkish state since the Ottomans and until now hostile to the Yazidi community and want to obliterate its existence and religion. "We have suffered from 73 massacres, but the targets of the occupiers and the hatred of the Yazidi people have not been achieved."

Laila Ibrahim, a member of the Yazidi House in al-Jazeera region pointed out, "North Syria is living in a state of security and stability thanks to the unification of all the components with each other, and this is not what Turkey does like as that does not suit their interests in the region."

Laila appealed to the international community to get out of their shameful silence, "Enough for the silence about the terrorist and barbaric attacks of the Turkish occupation army against the Kurdish people.

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