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97 տարի առաջ Թուրքիան բարբարոսաբար վերաբերեց հայ և եզդի ազգերին` կոտորելով 1.5 միլիոն հայ և 500 հազար եզդի, ինչը դատապարտելի է: Ծիծեռնակաբերդի հուշահամալիրում լրագրողների հետ զրույցում ասաց Եզդիների ազգային միության նախագահ Ազիզ Թամոյանը:

Նրա խոսքով` ամբողջ աշխարհը պետք է դատապարտի այդ ծանր հանցագործությունը, որպեսզի աշխարհում այլևս ցեղասպանություներ չլինեն: «Այսօրվա դրությամբ Արևմտյան Հայաստանում ապրած հայերից և եզդիներից շատ քչերն են մնացել. ո՞ւր են նրանք, ի՞նչ են եղել, ո՞ւր է Էրմենիստանը»,- ասաց Ա.Թամոյանը:

Վերջինս գտնում է, որ ուշ թե շուտ Թուրքիան ընդունելու է իր կատարած ոճրագործությունը, չնայած որ Թուրքիայի ներկայիս ղեկավարությունը չի ընդունում իր նախնիների արածը: «Նրանք հանդես են գալիս ժխտողական քաղաքականությամբ, բայց կան հստակ փաստեր` Սևրի պայմանագիրը»,- ընդգծեց Եզդիների համաշխարհային խորհրդի նախագահը:

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Եզդիների Ցեղասպանությունը Օսմանյան Կայսրությունում 1915-1918

GENOCIDE OF YEZIDI PEOPLE IN OSMANIAN TURKEY CARRIED OUT IN 1915-1918

Aziz  Tamoyan

Doctor-Professor of national history

and theology,

The President of the

National Unity of Yezidis 

of the World

Bill of complaint

To the U. N.,

European Union,

European Council,

U. S. President

President of the Russian Federation

U. K. PM

Federal Chancellor of Germany

President of France

President of Turkey

President of Iraq

In 1915-1918 the upper circles of the Osmanian Empire, taking advantage of the conditions of the World War, organized and realized the genocide of Turkey's national minorities. During a few years the Osmanian Empire actually completely slaughtered the native peoples of the country: Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks. Nowadays the world is aware of numerous facts and details of these terrible atrocities committed by Turkey's authorities endowed with state power.

The world's most progressive countries condemned the Armenian Genocide in the Osmanian Empire on the state level and mark mournful data of the Genocide's beginning together with Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians.

However, Yezidis, a distinctive and native nation on the territory of the Osmanian Empire, are actually never mentioned in this sorrowful list of peoples destroyed by Turks. Meanwhile, even an incomplete list of settlements of Yezdistan (a territory in the north of Iraq), where Turkish vandals slaughtered Yezidis, is quite and quite impressive. According to the territorial regions, the picture of those killed is as follows:

1. Iraq, the territory of Yezdistan, Sinjar, Sinoun, Gobal, Dgour, Gali Ali Bage, Dhok, Zorava, Karse and Bare, Siba, Tlizer, Tlzafe, Khrbade Kavala, Grzark, Rmbousi, Sharok, Tlkazab, Tlbanta, Kocho, Khotmi, Mosoul, Rndavan, Amadia. Over 200,000 Yezidis were slaughtered in the above-mentioned settlements.

2. Western Armenia, Van province: about 100,000 Yezidis were killed in the Khanasori field and surrounding villages: Avagh, Akhourik, Angouzak, Anzava, Ajali, Srchak, Begrib, Havasi, Bejarmo, Bertis, Giadin, Gondurma, Zeva, Derjamada Zherin, Derjamada Zhorin, Duavan, Ghndi, Erjis (Archesh), Tondurak, Khachan, Khojaghshlagh, Khasamiajn, Kujapnar, Karakale, Kirato, Kolzot, Kjucheq qej, Mervane, Mollahasan, Muchs, Muradin, Jarmka, Noshar, Shahmanis, Sherefkhane, Shikefti, Chaldran, Chragh, Chibukhchlu, Pshikumbat, Janik, Saraj, Simar (Timar), Uste, Orene, etc. About 100,000 Yezidis were killed.

3. Moush province (Kavane qere), the provinces of Avakhe, Diarbeqir (Dashta Bsheri), Mardini Khazalie (Kharza), Jgire. Azka Zherin, Azka Zhorin, Alka, Bazidane, Basmute, Bakhms, Berkle, Galie Zilan, Geduke, Dusha, Ered, Zakhorae, Zeik, Zerine, Khnus, Kakharine, Kavrozje, Koboldor, Korkhe, Tchneria, Yaduna, Yajre, Yasktiva, Majmunie, Shmze, Shkavta, Jnaskar, Rame, Frkira, etc. About 60, 000 Yezidis were killed.

4. Erzroum province (Bayazet-Alashkert province), Ortla, Diadin, etc. About 7,500 Yezidis were killed.

5. Kars province: about 5,000 Yezidis were killed in the Ozrlu (Oghuzlu), Alajay canyon of the Kars province.

6. About 3,000 Yezidis were killed in the Kakizmani Kolpe (Koghb) settlement of the Kaghzvan province, the region of Kars.

7. In Digor province, the region of Kars, other villages: Alashgr, Alashkert, Amankoyi, Amanchayir, Aylasinjo, Aqar, Bayramqoum, Bajali, Bashqedikver, Belihamed, Gogormas, Digor (Tekor), Douzgeli, Tokhubur, Kharaba, Digor Khataba Tchibukhl, Kjundo, Hasanjan, Noka, Shandrkhghli, Sousoul, Tashnika, Yezdika, Touzak, Ulikand, Pasharjik, etc. 9, 000 Yezidis from about 70 villages were forcedly converted to Islam.

8. The region of Sourmalu, Igdir province: Kharfalu, Alchalu, Aslanlu, Bandamourad, Bash Sinak, Gli, Gyarmashve, Damskhan, Zaribkhan, Zore, Khane, Khrbesor, Karakhtin, Karaku, Kutch, Makhsudja, Majri, Shekheri, Sayiblakh, Taoushan, Tashkorpi, Kalo, etc. About 10,000 Yezidis were killed.

9. In 1918, while crossing the Arpachai (Akhurian) and Arax rivers about 4, 000 Yezidis drowned and starved to death.

10. The region of Aparan, Eastern Armenia: in the vicinity of the villages of Alagyaz, Doundaghsaz, Ghuruboghaz and Jarjaris Yezidis were killed by the bands of Kjandale bash and Navala ajale Kurd Prince Tajo: in 1918 about 800 people were killed, only 19 of which were from the family of Rashiteh Ayoy. 54 people were killed in the village of Amre Taza (Posht) of the same region.

11. Kurd prince Tajo expelled about 600 people from other villages of the same region to Turkey’s distant regions.

12. 24 people, one of which was a woman, were killed in the region of Grasor, situated in the vicinity of the Shamiram village, Ashtarak region, in 1918, within a day.

Thus, according to the total verified number about 500, 000 Yezidi people were killed.

The Turkish historiographer Katib Tchelebi also informs that in 1915-1918 about 300,000 Yezidis were massacred on the territory of the Osmanian Empire. However, according to verified data, those years over 500,000 Yezidis were slaughtered by Turkish and Kurd barbarians, and the fact has not been condemned by the progressive countries of the world.

Naturally, it would be especially interesting for specialists to learn in what settlements and how many Yezidis became the victims of the Turkish state. So, before the World War I, according to reliable sources, over 750,000 Yezidis were killed on the territory of the Osmanian Empire, and over 500,000 of which were massacred and 250,000 more were forcedly deported and found shelter in:

1. Iraq, in the vicinity of Sinjar Mountain, Mousoul, Rndavan, the village of Fakirs, Amadia, Dhok, the sacred place of Lalysh, Bashika, Bahzan and other settlements – 100,000.

2. Turkey, in the provinces of Batman and Diarbeqir, 120,000.

3. Syria, in the settlement of El-Kamishli, 15,000.

4. Armenia, 12,500.

5. Georgia, 3,000.

The list of literature

1. Yezdikhana Monthly, 2004, number 8, 2005, number 1.

2. A. Goge “The Voice of Our Great-Great-Grandfathers”, Yerevan, 1997, in Yezidi.

3. A. Tamoyan “We are Yezidi”, Yerevan, 2001.

4. Yezdikhana Monthly, 2006, number 2.

2007 Yezidi Genocide by kurds in Irak

2007 Yezidi Genocide in Mosul

Once again appealing to you, Yezidi people request and demand that the crime committed against their people should be recognized. Nowadays the Kurdish Yezidi people scattered by the whole territory of Northern Asia and Near East require the reestablishment of justice and recognition of events of 1915-1918 as Genocide. 

We are convinced that the defiance of historic crimes against mankind will inevitably result in a precedent for new crimes. Actually, it is already taking place. In August and September of 2007 over a thousand of innocent Yezidis, peaceful inhabitants of the region, were destroyed in the north of Iraq, in historical Yezdistan.

We urge to restore historical justice and condemn the genocide of Yezidi people, which took place in the Ottoman Empire in 1915-1918.

We do not lay any territorial claim, but request that compensation for damage caused to our people be appropriate.

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Եզդիների Ազգային Պատմություն

Yezidis History

The Ezides are one of the oldest people in the world. According to reliable facts their home country is Northern Irak. The Ezides are of Arian origin and are Sun-worshippers. They also call themselves the people of Malake Taus, the religion is Sharfadin. The Ezides are a special ethnic group and have no connections to any other nation.

The main Ezide God is Mighty Khudeh that is the creator of the Universe. According to Ezide national rules, no representative of other nation can be called an Ezide. The version that the Ezides were Zoroastrians is wrong. Zoroaster was a religious preacher who was a Persian by origin and lived in 635 BC.

To relate Ezides to Yazats is also wrong. Yazat is an Old Iranian God that lived 3 000 years ago BC. There is no any reference between Ezides and the city of Yezd in Iran, as the Ezides never lived in that city. Remember that “Izdai” means I gave, and has nothing to do with the name Ezid.

Some identify Ezides with Kurds, which is also wrong. “Kurd” in some Iranian languages means ‘shepherd’. Kurds formulated as a nation in the X-XII cc, therefore they cannot have any connection with the Ezides. None of the above mentioned could be Red Sultan Ezide or has any reference to him. All of these versions have no historical background.

Red Sultan Yezid                                                       

In the earliest times of the history of mankind people used to change their places of habitation and the Ezides moved from India to Burma, Afghanistan /city of Kandahar/, then to Iran, where they became fire-worshippers. Later the Ezides moved from to different cities of present Turkey – Karza, Avakhe, Antave, Shark, and Shame as well as to other cities of different countries, such as Shangal, Kamishlu, Basra, Cuff and Baghdad. Ezids called themselves by this name beginning from the VII century. But it should be mentioned that long before they called themselves the people of Malake Taus, later Adaves (Alaves), then Sunis. In October 10, 683 the son of Shia Ali or as the Ezides call him, Alie Sher, Hussein was killed, and soon Red Sultan Ezid disappeared (his fate is still unknown to us).

Sheikh Adi

It should be mentioned that after Hussein’s death on the field of Kerballa, the Muslims wear blue as a sigh of deep moor, while to wear blue for an Ezide is a sin. And Sultan Ezide being covered with red blood in this battle became known as Red Sultan Ezide. An interesting fact is that before the mention battle the flag of the Ezids was white (be laqabie), after Kerballa it became red and white and is that up to now.

In the XI century during the reign of Shikhadi, the Ezides moved from Sham to Lalish, Shangal (Sinjar). After the death of Shekh Adi the same century, a great number of Ezides moved to the nearby areas of the cities of Western Armenia such as Kars, Mush, Van, Erzerum, in Diarbakr – Ortala, Karakuy, Igdir, Sink, Digor and other areas.

Though we have no State system or State organization and are spread all over the world, we have preserved our unique national features, for we have lived in strong communities and stayed attached to our religion and beliefs. Maybe this absence of State organizations was the reason that we were called differently in different countries: in Turkey they called us Turk-ezides, in Iraq – Arab-ezides or Kurd-ezides. And though we were considered to be Muslims, this fact didn’t prevent the some countries to organize genocides against the Ezide people.

The arch above the entrance to the 13th Century temple.
It houses the tomb of a key Yezidi figure, Sheikh Adi,
who died in 1162, but the roots of the Yezidi
faith pre-date Islam and Cristianity

Lalish (Main Sanctuary of the Yezidis)

Later under the pressure of Shians, the Yezids were resettled and became consolidated in Meser, Shark, Sham (now Damascus). In 19th century, at the time of Shikhadi, Yezides moved from Sham to Lalsh, Shanghal (Sinjar), Mosul. At the time of Shikhadi for Yezids was originated hatsad (constitution) in accordance with it was formed religious parliament of seven members: Nasrdin, Sjadin, Sheshms, Farkhadin (they are brothers- Esta Zin’s sons), Shekhesen, Hazmaman, Shekhubakr.

It’s a few years that we – Armenian-inhabited Yezides have got informed by means of media- TV, newspaper, magazines, video- that some Tahasin Beg, that considers himself a Mir of the whole world, announces that Yezids are Kurds and their language is Kurdish.
We – Armenian-inhabited Yezids consider such a person to be a traitor to a long-suffering people and it’s millions of descendants. We don’t recognize him as a Mir of Yezids. If he were a Mir of Yezids then why hadn’t he at least once visited Armenian Yezids and also the Yezids in the area of the former Soviet Union. We ourselves consider a Mir the Ismail’s grandson, Masoi’s son Anouchar, as soon as both Mir Ismail and his sons and grandsons visited us at our place.

Aziz Tamoyan (Azize Amar) – Doctor – Professor of Yezidi national history and theology.

Double the national hero of the Yezidis

The President of the National Unity of Yezidis of the World

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