I have recently posted another article from BBC about missing bodies that were found in acid wells. Those bodies belong to people who lost their life during the conflict that took place in the 90s between Kurdistan Workers Party (aka PKK) and Turkish army. Those who died were killed by ‘unidentified’ people during the daytime, [...]
Yezidis
Your donations helped launch Alliance For Kurdish Rights (AKR)
June 8th, 2008A new website and campaign, Alliance for Kurdish Rights (AKR) is an independent and self-funded project started by a group of students and youth activists who wish to campaign for change and address the issue of Kurdish rights in the Middle East and abroad.
Through the website, AKR aims to campaign for Kurdish human rights and [...]
Information about the Yezidi Kurds
November 17th, 2007First, thanks to Esra’a for inviting me to join this website.
The Yezidis (”yuh-ZEE-deez”) are a Kurdish sect living in the Nineveh province of modern-day Iraq. Their religion is pre-Islamic and pre-Christian, yet it has absorbed certain qualities of both faiths. It has also absorbed elements of Zoroastrianism and Sufi mysticism. It is [...]
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