Editing Persecution (section)

===Yazidis===
{{Main|Persecution of Yazidis|Persecution of Yazidis by Muslim Kurds}}
{{Category see also|Persecution of Yazidis}}

The Persecution of [[Yazidis]] has been ongoing since at least the 10th century.<ref name="Oxford">{{Cite book|last=Naby|first=Eden|url=http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/print/opr/t236/e1282|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023141910/http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/print/opr/t236/e1282|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 23, 2020|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=2009|isbn=9780195305135|editor-last=Esposito|editor-first=John|editor-link=John Esposito|chapter=Yazīdīs|author-link=Eden Naby}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Acikyildiz|first=Birgul|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3RNEBAAAQBAJ&q=Sindi+Kurds&pg=PA45|title=The Yezidis: The History of a Community, Culture and Religion|date=2014-08-20|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|isbn=978-1-78453-216-1}}</ref> The [[Yazidism|Yazidi religion]] is regarded as [[devil worship]] by [[Islamist]]s.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Jalabi|first=Raya|date=2014-08-11|title=Who are the Yazidis and why is Isis hunting them?|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/07/who-yazidi-isis-iraq-religion-ethnicity-mountains|access-date=2020-12-01|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Yazidis have been persecuted by Muslim [[Kurds|Kurdish]] tribes since the 10th century,<ref name="Oxford"/> and by the [[Ottoman Empire]] from the 17th to the 20th centuries.<ref>Evliya Çelebi, The Intimate Life of an Ottoman Statesman: Melek Ahmed Pasha (1588–1662), Translated by [[Robert Dankoff]], 304 pp., SUNY Press, 1991; {{ISBN|0-7914-0640-7}}, pp. 169–171</ref> After the 2014 [[Sinjar massacre]] of thousands of Yazidis by the [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]], Yazidis still face violence from the [[Turkish Armed Forces]] and its ally the [[Syrian National Army]], as well as discrimination from the [[Kurdistan Regional Government]]. According to Yazidi tradition (based on oral traditions and folk songs), estimated that 74 genocides against the Yazidis have been carried out in the past 800 years.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kizilhan |first1=Jan Ilhan |last2=Noll-Hussong |first2=Michael |title=Individual, collective, and transgenerational traumatization in the Yazidi |journal=BMC Medicine |date=2017 |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=198 |doi=10.1186/s12916-017-0965-7 |pmid=29224572 |pmc=5724300 |issn=1741-7015|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Hosseini |first1=S. Behnaz |title=Trauma and the Rehabilitation of Trafficked Women: The Experiences of Yazidi Survivors |date=2020 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-000-07869-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DFzsDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT16}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=von Joeden-Forgey |first1=Elisa |last2=McGee |first2=Thomas |title=Editors' Introduction: Palimpsestic Genocide in Kurdistan |journal=Genocide Studies International |date=1 November 2019 |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=1–9 |doi=10.3138/gsi.13.1.01 |s2cid=208687918 |url=https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/gsi.13.1.01 |issn=2291-1847}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Six-Hohenbalken |first1=Maria |title=The 72nd Firman of the Yezidis: A "Hidden Genocide" during World War I? |journal=Genocide Studies International |date=1 November 2019 |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=52–76 |doi=10.3138/gsi.13.1.04 |s2cid=208688838 |url=https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/gsi.13.1.04}}</ref>