Iraqi Yazidi MP Breaks Down in Parliament: ISIL is Exterminating my People

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Turkey gives sanctuary to hundreds of Yazidis fleeing Iraq​

Ankara (AFP) - Up to 800 people from Iraq's Yazidi community have fled across the border to Turkey after escaping a lightning offensive by jihadists from the Islamic State (IS) group, Turkish officials said on Thursday.

The Yazidis are the latest victims of violence in the Middle East to find sanctuary in Turkey, after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's open door policy resulted in the influx of over one million Syrian refugees into the country.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu also revealed that Iraqi military helicopters had dropped Turkish aid for the Yazidis in northern Iraq, but the Turkish military denied its jets had entered Iraqi airspace.

Some "600 to 800 Yazidis have made their own way to Turkey since Wednesday," a government official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

"They have been accommodated by the local authorities in a housing complex for earthquake victims in the town of Silopi near the Iraqi border."

An attack by the IS at the weekend sparked a mass exodus from the northern part of Iraq including the town of Sinjar, where most of the population is made up of the Yazidi minority.
Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu speaks during a news conference in Ankara on July 3, 2 …
A Turkish foreign ministry official described the flight of the Yazidis as a "human tragedy".

"It is not possible for Turkey to remain indifferent to this. We will fulfil our responsibility," the official told AFP.

The Yazidi are a closed community that follows an ancient faith rooted in Zoroastrianism and are scorned by jihadists as "devil worshippers", a term the Yazidi angrily reject.

- 'Circle of fire' -

The advance of Islamist militants in northern Iraq has alarmed Turkey, which is still trying to secure the release of dozens of its citizens held by the IS in Iraq's second largest city, Mosul.

Some 80 tons of food aid donated by neighboring Turkey is off loaded after it arrived in the norther …
Davutoglu held a three-hour long crisis meeting Thursday with military and intelligence chiefs to discuss the potential fallout from Iraq.

"There is a circle of fire in the region surrounding Turkey," he said, adding that some neighbouring governments had lost control of their countries.

Davutoglu said Turkey had increased humanitarian operations in Iraq, including a large package containing food and water dropped by Iraqi helicopters on the Sinjar mountains where the Yazidi community was stranded.

He insisted that the Turkish government strategy was based on helping Iraqis within their own territory.

"We could not do this during the Syrian crisis because a safe zone... could not be established," said Davutoglu.

The general staff of the Turkish armed forces late Thursday denied reports that its planes had entered Iraqi air space for the aid drop.

"Claims Turkish air force planes flew in Iraqi air space on August 7 do not reflect reality," it said in a statement.

Turkey is hosting 1.2 million Syrian refugees who have fled more than three years of brutal civil war. Many live in camps along the volatile border with others scattered throughout the country, including in Istanbul.

Officials say Turkey set up an aid centre at the Habur border gate and dispatched trucks carrying food and medicine to cities across northern Iraq.

The government is also planning to establish a 20,000-capacity camp in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Dohuk for Iraqi Turkmens.

Davutoglu said Turkey was working "day and night" to bring back the dozens of Turkish citizens, including the chief consul, kidnapped in June by jihadists in Mosul.

He lashed out at speculation that the government was preparing a "hostage show" ahead of Sunday's presidential elections where Erdogan is the clear favourite.

Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) filed a censure motion against Davutoglu this week over the unresolved hostage crisis.

Turkey gives sanctuary to hundreds of Yazidis fleeing Iraq - Yahoo News

Every country should help these people

 

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Well ISIS will find it diffict to get Erbil . Peshmerga are chasing ISIS away from Shengil and even fighting them near mosul . They lost a few towns in the start but are recovering pretty well . Better than Iraqi army who dropped their arms and fled . I hope they win both for themselves and Yazidis or Arfter thousands of years their will not be any yazidi community left in Iraq .

So now Indians are an expert on this as well.

Kurds fled their positions once ISIS attacked them despite all the boasting about them being brave warriors, ISIS made such gains that Obama had to take action to protect the US personnel in Arbil, no such thing was needed for Baghdad.
Let's see what Kurds did before begging Baghdad for help.

before ISIS attacked Kurds Peshmerga were firing at Iraqi birds, they were firing at Iraqi army positions, they stole Iraqi army equipments, they took over lands and announced they will never leave it or hand it back to the Iraqi government, they replaced the Iraqi flag with their own flag spitting on the flag, they stole Iraqi oil and sold it without getting the central government
approval. They discriminated against Iraqi Arabs/Turkmens/Assyrians and the list go on.

They did not engage them

The kurdish Yazidi MP first supporting ISIS as revolutionaries then crying them killing Yazidis

Discrimination against Arabs

security precaution in Duhok
curfew after 10:00PM for Arabs living in Avro City

 

[ozzy22]

What made me lol was Obama saying that the US will not be dragged into another conflict. I don’t remember anyone dragging the US into Iraq or Afghanistan. I hope the US does the right thing and takes responsibility and intervenes militarily.

 

[Hakan]

Thank You, Turkey!

If isis keep advancing more refugees will come to turkey on top of the

The goverment denied any involvement in conflict and participation of Turkish jets, the only involvement in Iraq so far is sending supplys to Yezidis dropped by Iraqi choppers they say.

Im not sure if its true or not since the goverment is reserved on statements about Isis because they still hold 50 embassy staff as captives but Turkey striked them before in Syria so anything is possible.
There are rumors since months that Turkish jets are monitoring Isis positions in Iraq and sharing intelligence with Iraqi officials.

I think the turkish jets were confused wih u.s jets. Like you said they hold 50 captives so it doesn't make sense to make a provocation.

 

[A1Kaid]

USA is the one brought ISIS in the first place. Any action from USA will help ISIS to stay furthermore.

The best situation for them is to leave Iraq as soon as possible. The situation cannot be fixed overnight. Given the condition of Iraq, it might take forever, but if USA leaves, Iraq will have one less problem to concentrate on.

Any real evidence for this claim?

 

[LeveragedBuyout]

What made me lol was Obama saying that the US will not be dragged into another conflict. I don’t remember anyone dragging the US into Iraq or Afghanistan. I hope the US does the right thing and takes responsibility and intervenes militarily.

Were you born after the year 2001?

 

[Cherokee]

14.06 Two US jets hit a mobile artillery piece.

14.00 US forces struck after artillery fire against Kurdish forces defending the key city of Erbil.

13.54 US aircraft launched airstrikes against extremist positions in northern Iraq after artillery fire near US personnel, the Pentagon has said.

Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby tweeted:

<noframe>Twitter: Rear Adm. John Kirby - US military aircraft conduct strike on ISIL artillery. Artillery was used against Kurdish forces defending Erbil, near US personnel.</noframe>

13.40 Britain is to drop humanitarian aid to Iraqi refugees forced to flee their homes by the advance of Islamic State.

 

[atatwolf]

Sad to see what happens to Yazidi but they kind of put themselves in this position. They made themselves enemies to everybody in the region and nobody wants to help them.

 

[ozzy22]

Were you born after the year 2001?

Oh because the terrorist got their training in Afghanistan? By that logic the US army should have invaded Florida where the terrorist learnt to fly. What did the US actually do for the majority of the war? Fight a bunch of locals who had no idea what 9-11 was and had no responsibility for it.

 

[flamer84]

Oh because the terrorist got their training in Afghanistan? By that logic the US army should have invaded Florida where the terrorist learnt to fly. What did the US actually do for the majority of the war? Fight a bunch of locals who had no idea what 9-11 was and had no responsibility for it.

Those locals refused to hand over Osama Bin Laden.When you harbour the criminal that perpetraded 9/11 from the premiere world superpower don't act surprised when hellfire starts raining on your country.

 

[ozzy22]

Those locals refused to hand over Osama Bin Laden.When you harbour the criminal that perpetraded 9/11 from the premiere world superpower don't act surprised when hellfire starts raining on your country.

Why did the US spend most of its energy fighting locals and not al Qaeda?

 

[flamer84]

Why did the US spend most of its energy fighting locals and not al Qaeda?

The locals were buddies and allies of Al Qaeda.Why do you ask silly questions ?

 

[hussain0216]

Why did the US spend most of its energy fighting locals and not al Qaeda?

Because the U.S is a arrogant superpower who thought that all before them would be dust ion the wind

If they had spent even a few days working out local culture or tradition they could have worked with local powers to obtain Bin Laden and AQ they instead when hell for leather into a country causing many deaths and creating enemies

They are now on their way out and Taliban and AQ are stronger then ever

 

[ozzy22]

The locals were buddies and allies of Al Qaeda.Why do you ask silly questions ?

If I remember correctly the Taliban were willing to give up Osama if the US gave evidence that he was involved with 9-11.

 

[hussain0216]

If I remember correctly the Taliban were willing to give up Osama if the US gave evidence that he was involved with 9-11.

The reason for this once again goes to local culture and tradition which has been in place for thousands of years

If you have a guest it is your duty to defend and protect him as long as he is a guest

So if the USA wanted them to hand over bi nladen all the Taliban requested was evidence and they would have done it, but american arrogance took the line of how dare they request this from us and the reality was they wanted to invade afghanistan anyway, their blood lust from being hit so hard after 9/11 was strong and they thought it would be easy after all the Taliban were running around with AK's, turbans and sandals

little did they know