Posted on 08/07/2014 5:00:18 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
Displaced Iraqis from the northern town of Sinjar head towards the autonomous Kurdistan region on August 4, 2014, as they seek refuge after Islamic State (IS) Sunni militants took control of their hometown. AFP Photo
Yazidis fleeing Iraq following an offensive by Islamic State (IS) militants have been settled in homes in the town of Silopi in the southeastern province of Şırnak, Culture Minister Ömer Çelik has said from Twitter on Aug. 7.
Another government official who spoke to the AFP on condition of anonymity said hundreds of Yazidis had entered Turkey since Aug. 6.
"They have been accommodated by the local authorities in a housing complex for earthquake victims in the town of Silopi near the Iraqi border," the official told AFP.
Tens of thousands of Yazidi families, as well as Turkmens living in Iraq’s Sinjar district bordering Syria are desperately trying to escape the militants amid reports of massacres.
Speaking to the AFP, a Turkish foreign ministry official described the flight as a "human tragedy." "It is not possible for Turkey to remain indifferent to this. We will fulfil our responsibility," the official said.
Feyyan Dahil, a Yazidi-origin lawmaker told the Iraqi Parliament on Aug. 6 that at least 500 people have been killed and 500 women were abducted as concubines.
Turkey is also gearing up humanitarian aid to Turkmens, setting up a new refugee camp for 20,000 Iraqi Turkmens near the northern Iraqi city of Duhok.
Deputy Prime Minister Beşir Atalay said on Aug. 6 initials plans were to set a refugee camp in Sinjar – inhabited by the Yazidi minority – but it was changed due to security reasons.
The Union of Chamber and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) Aug. 6 sent 25 humanitarian aid trucks for both people in the Gaza Strip and Iraqi Turkmens in neighboring Iraq, in coordination with Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Relief Agency (AFAD).
The Yazidi are a closed community that follows an ancient faith rooted in Zoroastrianism and are referred to by jihadists as "devil worshippers."
Why is America not helping these poor people?
Answer: Obama’s Islamic America, under the Islamic Tyrant,
supports the “rebels” slaying these people.
Zoroastrianism is a pagan amalgam of Iranian gods that came into being late in the 6th century, gaining adherents about the time that Islam emerged. This sect is closed and not violent as Islam is, but Islamists consider them “devil worshippers” who should be killed.
Herding them onto a desert mountain in scorching heat with no water is a convenient way of mass killing without wasting ammunition. This is why we should defend with our lives the Second Amendment, the greatest gift the Founders gave to a free people.
Are these the same people who were shown fleeing by auto - lines as far as the eye could see on Tuesday? The ones who were reported last night as being in the mountains without food and water? If so, thankfully, they are receiving help. But where is help from us? Or the UN? Or the Red Cross? 500 women abducted?
Which by the way reminds me - what of the Nigerian girls kidnapped weeks ago? Not important to Michelle any longer?
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