Turkish airstrikes target Yazidi areas recovering from ISIS genocide

Jerusalem Post ^ | JANUARY 16, 2020 14:23 | SETH J. FRANTZMAN

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The impoverished Yazidi community survived ISIS genocidal attacks but has been targeted repeatedly by Turkey since 2017.

Turkey again carried out a targeted assassination of Yazidi members of a far-left group in Sinjar in northern Iraq on Wednesday, according to local reports. It is one of several airstrikes Turkey has carried out in the area where members of the Yazidi minority live. 

The impoverished Yazidi community survived ISIS genocidal attacks but have now been targeted repeatedly by Turkey since 2017, including a Turkish invasion of Afrin in 2018 that led to ethnic-cleansing of Yazidi villages and a Turkish attack with Syrian rebel fighters on Tel Abyad in October 2019 that forced Yazidis to flee Syria. 

According to Rudaw an airstrike carried out by Turkey hit a vehicle north of Sinjar Mountain, which is also called Shingal, on Wednesday at 11:00am. It occurred near the village of Dugure and killed at least five people. Among those killed was believed to be Zardasht Shingali, a member of the Yazidi Shingal Protection Units (YBS). 

The group is linked to other far-left groups, such as the People’s Protection Units in Syria and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which Turkey says is a terrorist group. However the YBS have never been implicated in any “terror” attacks or any attacks on Turkey. Nevertheless Turkey uses F-16s to bomb the Yazidi areas every few months.

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Yazidi's (Ezidi's) have never attacked anybody. Only since ISIS tried to genocide them in Iraq, did they become armed. The PKK and later the YPG/YPJ did prevent all the Yazidi's being killed by ISIS on Shingal when they were attacked.

Iraq Peshmerga forces did not defend them then.

Turkey bombs anybody they decide offends them by being near Turkey. It is totally arbitrary. Of course Turkey denies this, but it is a fact. Just like the fact that they still deny the Armenian Genocide.

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Aditional details about what Turkey does is here. The author, whom I’ve read for quite a while, is concerned that TRT will possibly remove this source, so posted a captured pick.

https://twitter.com/sfrantzman/status/1217782452334276609

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The relationship between Erdogan’s family and ISIS has pretty much been ignored by the Western media. Erdogan’s son brokered deals with ISIS to exchange oil for weapons and passage of recruits into Syria and ISIS wounded out of Syria.

Turkey was and still is ISIS logistics base. Check out the situation in North East Syria to see how Erdogan is allied with the remnants of ISIS.