Religion in Turkey

Sombre Mood As Iraq’s Yazidis Mark New Year

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Thousands of Yazidis flocked to a shrine in northern Iraq to mark the New Year on Wednesday, in the minority’s biggest gathering since it was targeted for genocide by jihadists. Wearing traditional Yazidi clothes, holding candles and paraffin lamps, they started gathering in the holy town of Lalish on Tuesday for celebrations ahead of their … Read more

IS Rapes and Tortures Sunni Arab Women Too

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Fighters from the Islamic State group, whose abuses against Yazidi women have been well documented, are raping and torturing Sunni Arab women too, Human Rights Watch said Monday. The watchdog documented cases of arbitrary detentions, beatings, forced marriages and rape by the jihadists on women who have fled the town of Hawijah, which is still … Read more