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Bad blood: Armenia’s Kurds, Yezidis at loggerheads over identity issues

Armenia’s two ethnic minority groups have revealed their strong differences over matters of identity as their leaders held rival press conferences on Thursday, accusing each other of misrepresentation and being misleading.

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21.03.2010 07:54
I think the article was neutral, because the author of the article Mrs. Gayane Abrahamyan only say that these two men responsible for the association said. Yet I wonder if the choice of the photo is by chance ... Mr Aziz Tamonyan exaggerates and lies when he says that the Kurds say that Karabgh and that half of Armenia are Kurdish. . The Kurds have never said that. The Yezidis as Kurds have always supported the Armenians, the Armenian Yzidis were beaten with Karabakh Armenians, and Kurds have always supported the recognition of the genocide, the Turkish people still use some other cons, the Turkish have use of a Kurdish tribe for help in 1915, and it's only a limited number of Kurdish and only Kurdish from Turkey. The Kurds of Turkey more than once had to apologize to the Armenian, Kurdish deputies are the only ones seeking recognition of the genocide and ask forgiveness of the Armenians must not forget. In Sweden there were three deputies of Kurdish origin in Turkey three have voted for the recognition of genocide, the Turkish deputy went to protest but without voting. Kurdish MPs vote for recognition even when their political party propore said not to do so. And we must not forget that these three Kurdish play an important role in this recognition. Regarding whether the Yezidis have Kurdish origins, the answer is yes of course, but the Yezidis are as a people apart, they have their own flag, their own web sites, their own TV channels on Internet. There are also a lot of difference in culture such as weddings and funerals are so completely different. The Yezidis have always lived apart because they were persecuted by the Muslim Kurds, therefore it is a region known Yezdistan is that many Yazidis say they not at all cultural and ethnic ties while as if they speak the same language only on appeal that either Kurdish or ezdiki (yezderen) and ezdiki is in Cyrillic and all Kurdish YEZIDIS of the former Soviet Union use the alphabet as in Armenia. Other Kurds also use Latin. They are also many Yezidis believe that through ignorance they really have no case reports associated with the Kurds. Regarding the relationship between Kurdish Yezidis Yezidis expect an apology for 1915, after the Armenians, it must be logical for the Yezidis. And in Iraq by several associations, the Kurdish Islamists harassed the Yezidi community
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16.03.2010 05:58
I would actually believe what this yezidi man said about kurds claiming armenia as their lands, these people would be stupid enough to say that and even karabakh being theirs. If they are mad enough to think that karabakh is theirs i seriously would be worried for kurds if they went to war with armenians over karabakh because we know it is truly armenian lands. they would feel the raw determination of armenians! How dar these kurds say armenia is theirs ! even after they massacered armenians in turkey, they cant be trusted. I heard also an Iranian man, a muslim saying to me that Armenia is Iranian lands !!! that is bull ! they are all dangerous and stupid , they only know stealing and war. no one will ever destroy armenia EVER AGAIN !!!!!!
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14.03.2010 10:04
Kurds and yezidis are all our brothers. let us not allow the Turks to "divide and conquer" us all. The killing of the Yezidis in Iraq was done by Al Qaeda terrorists, and Not by Kurds. I share "Bahdinans" concerns about some points here. According to world opinion, Yezidis are indeed Kurds, marginalized maybe, but are the "real aboriginal" Kurds who stuck to their ancient religion, whereas the rest were Islamized.
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13.03.2010 06:02
This so-called leader of the Yezidis in Armenia is in fact the leader of a very small fringe party with extreme views that do not represent the vast majority of Yezidi people. Yezidi is a religious demarcation and all Yezidis are Kurds. Their language is Kurdish, their customs are Kurdish, and their ethnicity is Kurdish. People like Tamoyan are supported by Turkey to cast division between Kurdish people and to cause tension in Armenia. The writer of this article gives a very skewed impression of what is going on here. She fails to mention how small a segment of society Tomoyoan represents, the fact that the vast majority of Yezidis in Armenia term themselves Kurds and see Tamoyan as a self-interested propogandist. She fails to mention the fact that the hundreds of thousands of Yezidis in Southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq) identify themselves as Kurds, or the historical basis for this. The writer also repeats Tamoyan's allegation that a thousand Yezidis were burnt in a village in northern Iraq. In fact 600 Yezidi Kurds were killed by Arab Al Qaeda terrorists using 3 large truck bombs in a concerted suicide bombing. The injured Yezidi Kurds did not look to Arab-administered Mosul for help, they all received aid, support, blood transfusions and hospital treatment in Erbil and Dohuk, Kurdish cities. The writer of this report needs to do far more research before reporting such misinformation without critical thought or comment.
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12.03.2010 12:46
I agree with the last paragraph. Armenians can't trust anyone, because its our trust that has keep us down throughout our history, starting with Alexander The Great all the way to Soviets. We should only rely on our Armenian community to get this done for our nations interests where ever we are.
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