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Three Killed in Shingal Clash Between Yazidis and Kurds over ‘Stolen’ Sheep

Written on November 27, 2015 by Editor in KRG, Kurd news, Kurdistan, Peshmerga, Yazidis

By Dr. Amy L. Beam: In the afternoon of November 25, 2015, a clash over the ownership of sheep resulted in the death of two Yazidi Peshmerga and reportedly a Kurdish truck driver on the south side of Mount Sinjar (also called Shingal in Kurdish), just north of Shingal city. Leading up to this incident…

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Jacky Sutton, British Journalist: Suspicious Death in Istanbul Airport

Written on October 19, 2015 by Editor in Journalism, Kurd news, Kurdistan, Turkey

By Amy L. Beam, Ed.D.: British journalist Jacky Sutton, 50, travelled from London Heathrow to Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport on Saturday night, October 17, but failed to make it onto her next plane to Erbil in Kurdistan, Iraq. According to local media, she was told by airport personnel that she would have to buy a new…

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Nusaybin Kurds Under Seige By Turkish Police

Written on October 5, 2015 by Editor in Kurd news, Kurdistan, Turkey

By Dr. Amy L. Beam: Nusaybin in southeast Turkey has been under siege from Turkish police. Inside of the city of Nusaybin (with many Kurdish residents), no one is allowed to leave his or her house. Even staying inside one’s house, no one can look out of a window for fear of being shot by…

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1 Year After Attack: CYCI Liberates Yezidi Girls from Islamic State

Written on August 2, 2015 by Editor in ISIS, Kurd news, Kurdistan, Yazidis

By Dr. Amy L. Beam: I, Amy L. Beam, am an American human rights activist, researcher and writer. Since the Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, IS) attack on Shingal, Iraq, on August 3, 2014, in which over 9,000 Yezidis were killed, kidnapped, or sexually enslaved, I have visited all the Kurdish-run Yezidi refugee camps in…

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Turkey’s Treachery: Missile Strikes on PKK Martyrs Cemetery

Written on July 27, 2015 by Editor in Erdogan, ISIS, Kurd news, Kurdistan, PKK, Turkey, USA

By Dr. Amy L. Beam: On July 25, 2015, Turkey launched simultaneous missile attacks into Syria against Islamic State (ISIS or Daesh) targets and into Qandil, Kurdistan, against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) who have been the leading force fighting ISIS. Turkey stated its attack in the Qandil region was to destroy arms and munitions storage…

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What Yezidi Sex Slaves Need: Money, Immigration, Revenge

Written on July 17, 2015 by Editor in Iraq, KRG, Kurd news, Kurdistan, Women's rights, Yazidis

By Dr. Amy L. Beam:  MONEY Many people want to help the Yezidi people who were viciously attacked, slaughtered, and kidnapped last August in Shingal, Iraq, but they do not know who to trust with a donation. I have sat in the tents and one-room container homes of many Yezidi women who have escaped from…

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Zilan Valley Massacre – July 13, 1930

Written on July 13, 2015 by Editor in Genocide, History, Kurdistan, Turkey

By Dr. Amy L. Beam: Eighty-five years ago, the Turkish military slaughtered between 7,000 and 15,000 Kurds in less than a week in Zilan Valley in North Kurdistan (southeast Turkey). Some historians put the figure at 47,000 Kurds killed by the Turkish state.

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Kurdistan Genocide Office Prepares Cases for Prosecutions

Written on July 6, 2015 by Editor in Genocide, ISIS, KRG, Kurd news, Kurdistan, Yazidis

By Dr. Amy L. Beam: The Genocide Office to Identify Crimes Against Kurdish People Outside of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) was established in Duhok, Kurdistan, in September 2014, under the Kurdistan Ministry of Interior.  It serves Kurds, Yezidis, Christians and other minorities who suffered at the hands of the Islamic State jihadists (also referred…

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Yezidi Mass Exodus from Turkey Fails

Written on July 5, 2015 by Editor in Kurd news, Kurdistan, Refugees, Turkey, Yazidis

By Dr. Amy L. Beam: On June 26, 2015, Shengal Yezidis from refugee camps in southeast Turkey, began a mass exodus to the Bulgarian border. They were hopeful of leaving Turkey and entering Bulgaria or camping out between borders to gain the attention of the international community. They are pleading with countries to open their…

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Yezidis Want Mass Exodus from Turkey

Written on June 25, 2015 by Editor in KRG, Kurd news, Kurdistan, Turkey, Yazidis

By Dr Amy L. Beam: Over 20,000 Yezidis from Shingal, Iraq, have been living in refugee camps in southeast Turkey since September, 2014.  They do not want to face a second winter stuck in tents or over-crowed rooms in Turkey.  They are faced with choosing between three deeply problematic options: remain living in refugee camps…

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Lost Armenian History: Unknown Island in Lake Van

Written on April 23, 2015 by Editor in Armenian Genocide, Armenians, History, Kurdistan, Tourism, Turkey

By Dr. Amy L. Beam: The popular tourist attraction of Akdamar Island with its famous 10th century Armenian church is not the only island in Lake Van, Turkey.  There is a tiny island with a dark, lost history along the northeast coast.  Road signs show it is 40 km north of Van and 60 km…

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Turkish Army Kills Civilian during Arbor Day Activities

Written on April 12, 2015 by Editor in HDP, Kurd news, Kurdistan, PKK, Turkey

By Dr. Amy L. Beam: On April 11, 2015, the Turkish army shot from a helicopter and killed Cezmi Budak, former co-chair of the HDP party in Diyadin in eastern Turkey. Local Kurdish residents were going to the outskirts of Yukari Tütek village in the Tendurek Mountains for their annual Arbor Day activities on Saturday…

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Photos of Roboski Mule Massacre – March 23, 2015

Written on March 28, 2015 by Editor in Kurd news, Kurdistan, Roboski massacre, Turkey

By Dr. Amy L. Beam: On March 23, 2015, Turkish soldiers shot and killed eight mules at the Roboski border in southeast Turkey, near Kurdistan, Iraq.  Tensions have been high between local villagers and military forces since the Roboski massacre of December 28, 2011, in which 34 innocent men and teenagers were killed by two…

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Yazidis Demonstrate for International Protection and Asylum

Written on March 24, 2015 by Editor in Europe, Human rights, Iraq, ISIS, KRG, Kurd news, Kurdistan, Turkey, Yazidis

By Dr. Amy L. Beam: On March 23, 2015, 1500 Yazidis demonstrated in Brussels to plea for International Protection and aid from countries of the world. They were supported by demonstrations of thousands of Yazidis in Europe and refugee camps in Turkey and Iraq holding up signs written in both Arabic and English for the…

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Soldiers Slaughter Mules at Roboski

Written on March 23, 2015 by Editor in Kurd news, Kurdistan, Roboski massacre, Turkey

By Dr. Amy L. Beam: On March 23, 2015, at the border crossing between Roboski, Turkey, and Kurdistan, Iraq, soldiers shot and killed eight mules and wounded five (story corrected 25 March). Angry villagers gathered at the border as additional soldiers were sent to the border. Mules are used in cross-border trade to support the livelihood…

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